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Chetan Bhagat - Best Indian Novelist of 21st Century.

FOR all our billion-strong population, 620 million of whom can officially read, India is hardly commercially viable territory for the workaday novelist. The typical Indian "bestseller" sells between 3,000 and 5,000 copies; a true success is one that remains in print for years, with successive reprints of 2000 copies or so every nine or twelve months. In this modest market, One Night @ the Call Center has reportedly sold over 1,00,000 copies in the two months since its publication, and the demand shows no sign of letting up. Its author,

Chetan Bhagat, a 31-year-old whizkid with degrees from two of our country's most prestigious educational institutions — a bachelor's in engineering from IIT and a MBA from IIM — works for Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong and dabbles in didactic fiction in his spare time. The success of his previous novel, Five Point Someone, a tale of three college friends, shows he has a talent for tapping into the zeitgeist; that he is not much older than the people he writes about makes him a particularly credible portrayer of their world.

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