One book on three screwed up IITans changed the entire landscape of semi fictional writing in India. It fueled a market for short, accessible and affordable one time reads which gradually extended to other formats. More than his books, Chetan Bhagat is often lauded for starting a new age revolution which is making young India read like never before.
9 years after the launch of five point someone, we see more IITians and management graduates coming into writing. As Interesting it might seem, even within the breed of IIT-IIM writers, we increasingly find writers from one particular college IIT Delhi and most of them not surprisingly are into love stories.
Chetan Bhagat:
He is the man of the masses. With all his novels becoming best sellers in India, Chetan slowly diversified from writing love stories for the singles to becoming a screenplay writer, columnist and public speaker. He is all set with two films based on his books and a novel next year. He also has his own fan merchandise.
Harsh Snehanshu:
Travel writing is an intriguing space in this cubicle struck urban world and that is where Harsh is heading to. Harsh published his first two book while at college and has written two more novels since. A highly self-critical writer, Harsh also tried his hand in entrepreneurshp only to return back to write a novel on it. Harsh is all set to reach one lakh sales for his books.
Parul Mittal:
Parul A. Mittal is the author of a national bestseller novel “Heartbreaks & Dreams! – The Girls @ IIT” and “Arranged Love.” An Electrical engineer from IIT D, Parul worked for twelve years in the corporate world before venturing into writing. She also co-founded an e-venture Rivokids – which offers smart parenting ideas and free online memory books.
S. V. Divvaakar:
S. V. Divvaakar is a Managing Partner at Ace Global Consulting LLP and proper corporate turned writer. He served as the director at multiple companies in the past and is a Fellow at the Indicus Centre for Financial Inclusion. He wrote two books till date “The Winner’s Price: Life Beyond The Campus” and “Beaten by Bhagat.” His interests apart from writing include music, travel and public speaking. Co-incidentally, he stayed at the same hostel room which Chetan Bhagat occupied a few years later.
Anirban Mukherjee:
Anirban Mukherjee is an alumnus of IIT Delhi and IIM Kolkata. He made his debut with “Love-Bites!”. His recent one “Love, a rather bad idea” is a portrait of love based on his experiences at IIT and IIM.
Tushar Raheja:
Tushar Raheja, a doctoral candidate at IIT Delhi published his first book right after graduation. His flair for writing resulted in two books “Anything for you, Ma’am” and “Romi and Gang” both of which are acclaimed by critics and readers alike. Tushar balances his work between writing and his research on Nash Equilibrium.
These writers have proved that engineers can also be great writers and that we need not self restrict ourselves because of a day job. So readers, what do you think is the reason for the success of these writers ? Was it the influence of their alumni which prompted them to take a plunge or the active club culture at their college or was it just a random coincidence? While we look out for answers, lets not forget to grab a copy of their work.
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