Chetan Bhagat

Chetan Bhagat

A former banker turned author, Chetan Bhagat is credited with having helped extend the reach of literature to a broader audience in India.

Seven years ago an Indian investment banker penned a story of three friends at the Indian Institute of Technology, one of the country’s top schools. Soon after, the book became a best seller, hugely popular among India’s college crowd. Same thing happened a year later, when he published his second novel, this time on the life of call center employees .
The books were “Five Point Someone” (2004) and “One Night @ the Call Center (2005).” The former banker is Chetan Bhagat, an author credited with having helped extend the reach of literature to a broader audience in India. While some critics initially brushed off his success as mere fluke, his lasting popularity proved them wrong. Among the country’s teenagers and twenty-somethings, he is little short of a youth icon. Last year, he even made it in Time magazine’s list of “100 Most Influential People in the World.”
His books have gone on to become Bollywood hits, the most successful of which has been “3 Idiots,” a blockbuster inspired by his first novel starring Aamir Khan.
After tackling the sensitive topic of the Gujarat riots in “The 3 Mistakes of My Life,” (2008) and inter-communal marriages in his “2 States,” Mr. Bhagat’s fifth book is set released in October.

The book, “Revolution 2020,” addresses the hot topic of corruption, a theme that resonates loudly in India in the aftermath of the mass anticorruption protests led by social activist Anna Hazare.

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I CAN is 100 times more important than IQ

 If you’re smiling right now, you’re doing something right. Love yourself first and everything falls into line.
 Never loose hope, faith or dream in life. Say I CANand follow your heart. Don`t compromise and always remember Cheaters can cheat and steal but the can never take away what is destined for you.
 Follow these rules which I have learnt from my personal experience. Maybe It can help you too

1. It’s not so much what you say that counts, it’ how you make people feel.
2. The biggest mistake you can make is doing nothing because you’re scared to make a mistake.
3. No matter how it turns out, it always ends up just the way it should be.  Either you succeed or you learn something.  Win-Win.
4. Freedom is the greatest gift.  Self-sufficiency is the greatest freedom.
5. If you catch yourself working hard and loving every minute of it, don’t stop.  You’re on to something big.  Because hard work ain’t hard when you concentrate on your passions.
6. It’s not about getting a chance, it’s about taking a chance.  You’ll rarely be 100% sure it will work.  But you can always be 100% sure doing nothing won’t work.  Sometimes you just have to go for it!
7. Complaining is like slapping yourself for slapping yourself.  It doesn’t solve the problem, it just hurts you more.
8. The one with nothing to hide is always the one left standing tall.
9. You can press forward long after you can’t.  It’s just a matter of wanting it bad enough.
10. There’s a big difference between knowing and doing.  Knowledge is basically useless without action.
11. In work and business, when they need you more than you need them, you have succeeded.
12. Everything that happens in life is neither good nor bad.  It just depends on your perspective.
13. We are all weird.  And life is weird.  And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we call it love.
14. True friendship and true love do sustain the tests of distance and time.
15. You can’t change who you are.  You can only change what you know and how you apply this knowledge.
16. It is okay to be angry.  It is never okay to be cruel.
17. Even when you feel like you have nothing, someone else likely has far less.  Find them and help them.  You’ll see why.
18. Having a thousand credentials on the wall will not make you a decent human being.  But genuinely helping one person everyday will.
19. Remember, change happens for a reason.  Roll with it.  It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it.

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