Then what if someone who sits next to you coughs? You would worry that you may contract COVID.
On top of that, students may have been anxious to get to the exam centre. Already, these entrance exams cause a lot of anxiety. So why not we wait until then? It is not easy for everyone to appear for these exams. At the same time, the news tells us that we may have a vaccine in the next three to four months. I feel it would have been better to postpone these exams. In 2020, there was a lot of hue and cry among the student community about conducting the engineering and medical entrance examinations, amid COVID-19. If you remember, Five Point Someone was set in an IIT in the 1990s. We would go to calling booths to make a phone call. We didn't have mobiles or laptops in our time. The main difference is the intervention of technology. However, in the previous book, the detective is an IIT Delhi alumnus.Įven though it has been 25 years since you graduated from IIT Delhi, you interact with IITians regularly, through events or social media. Almost every book has a character who went to the IIT. It is a simple story, but the interconnections are complicated.īhagat was referred by the NYT as the biggest-selling English-language novelist ever in IndiaĪs you said, there are things that people generally expect out of a Chetan Bhagat book. The clues must be planted, but they shouldn't be too obvious or obscure. So, I had to adopt different techniques here. They're trying to solve the case, as they read the story.
These stories are hard to write because every reader here puts on the detective's hat. There are things that people usually expect out of a Chetan Bhagat book. But did you ever have moments of self-doubt or felt like giving up at any point? The challenge makes it creatively satisfying, otherwise, I'm churning out the same stories. At the same time, the new book is more challenging because the murder happens in a Punjabi joint family. That one required a lot of reading and research and I was quite nervous. Was that a difficult switch?Īuthoring One Arranged Murder wasn't as difficult as writing my first murder mystery The Girl in Room 105. Someone who read your books a decade ago wouldn't have imagined a future Chetan Bhagat who writes murder mysteries. He spoke to us about a lot more things, from his previous books to the IIT life and his children who just started to read his books.
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