Banking On Literary Success
"Chetan Bhagat, an investment banker, has become the biggest-selling English-language novelist in India's history... The novels, deliberately sentimental in the tradition of Bollywood filmmaking, are priced like an Indian movie ticket -- just 100 rupees, or $2.46 -- and have won little praise as literature... But he has touched a nerve with young Indian readers." The New York Times 03/26/08

Posted March 26, 2008 05:23 AM