Chetan Bhagat’s 6th Novel
By Sunita Das
Mumbai : Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce marketplace, announced that Chetan Bhagat’s latest novel “Half Girlfriend”, which is set to launch in October, will be exclusively available online for pre-order on Flipkart from August 5, 2014 This book is a simple and beautiful love story that will touch your heart and inspire you to chase your dreams. Like Chetan’s previous books which have built the reading habit in India, this book also is heart-warming and priced accessibly! Talking about the book, Chetan Bhagat said, “Half Girlfriend is a simple love story. It is about a boy who doesn’t speak English well and brings out the issues related to English in the country today. It is a rural-urban love story that not only touches the heart, but also inspires the reader. One of my goals is to make India read. For this, I wanted a partner that could make my story reach pan-India, right from the big metros to the interiors. Who better than Flipkart to do the same? Flipkart, today is India’s biggest and the most credible ecommerce player and it gives me immense joy to partner with Flipkart.” Commenting on the partnership, Kalyan Krishnamurthy, Senior VP-Retail, Flipkart said, “We are delighted to associate with Chetan Bhagat for online exclusivity, and are looking forward to make this book available to millions of our customers. This is yet another endeavour at our end to expand our selection and offer the widest and and most loved range of titles & authors to Indian readers.” About Chetan Bhagat : Chetan’s books have remained bestsellers since their release. Four out his five novels have been already adapted into successful Bollywood films and the others are in process of being adapted as well.The New York Times called him the ‘the biggest selling English language novelist in India’s history’. Time magazine named him amongst the ‘100 most influential people in the world’ and Fast Company, USA, listed him as one of the world’s ‘100 most creative people in business’.Chetan writes columns for leading English and Hindi newspapers, focusing on youth and national development issues. He is also a motivational speaker and screenplay writer.Chetan quit his international investment banking career in 2009 to devote his entire time to writing and make change happen in the country. He lives in Mumbai with his wife, Anusha, an ex-classmate from IIM-A, and his twin boys, Shyam and Ishaan.
