a biography on Chetan Bhagat
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Chetan Bhagat born on 22 April 1974 is an Indian author and columnist. Bhagat graduated in mechanical engineering at IIT Delhi and completed a PGP at IIM Ahmedabad. He started his career as an investment banker but left it after a few years to pursue writing. He has written nine novels and three non-fiction books. He was included in Time magazine's list of World's 100 Most Influential People in 2010.
Early life
Chetan Bhagat grew up in Naraina Vihar, West Delhi in a traditional middle-class Punjabi Hindu family. His father served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Indian Army and his mother worked in a government job in the agriculture department. He was schooled at The Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan.He claims to have been an average student at the age of 15.
Bhagat graduated with a BTech degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1995.
Bhagat then went on to do an master's of business administration degree in marketing from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) and graduated in 1997. In June 2018, IIMA awarded him the "Young Alumni Achiever’s Awards 2018" in the Art & Entertainment category.
Career
After graduating with a master's of business administration degree in 1997, Bhagat was placed through his campus at Peregrine Investments Holdings in Hong Kong. However, Bhagat lost this job within six months as the company closed its operations in 1998. His next job was as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs at their Hong Kong office. Despite being unhappy with his boss, he stayed on and kept this boss in mind when he characterised the villain in his second novel One Night the Call Center.Bhagat spent most of his time at the Goldman Sachs office in writing, completing and revising drafts of his first novel, Five Point Someone. After two years, Rupa Publications accepted his manuscript and offered to publish it.
Bhagat quit Goldman Sachs and joined Deutsche Bank. By 2006, he was vice-president, Strategic Investment Group, Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong.His second novel, One Night the Call Center, was published in 2005 and became a best-seller. In March 2008, Bhagat moved back to India with his wife and three-year-old twin sons. He joined as a director in Deutsche Bank's distressed-assets team in Kodak House, Mumbai. The same year his third novel, The 3 Mistakes of My Life, was published and sold five lakh copies in three months.
In 2009, he quit his banking career to write full-time.
Bhagat is also a popular motivational speaker and has spoken at more than 300 organizations in 50 cities around the world.
Awards and accolades
Featured on Time magazine's list of World's 100 Most Influential People of 2010 in the Artists category.
Listed '47' among the "100 Most Creative People 2011" by the Fast Company American business magazine and business media brand
Won the "CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 2014" award in the Entertainment category
Ranked No. 82 on the 2017 Forbes India Celebrity 100 list.