{"id":7515,"date":"2024-01-27T16:41:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T11:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesgroupgbs.com\/?post_type=team&#038;p=7515"},"modified":"2024-02-04T16:14:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T10:44:46","slug":"chetan-bhagat","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/etnowgbs.com\/2024\/speakers\/chetan-bhagat\/","title":{"rendered":"Chetan Bhagat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Chetan Bhagat is the author of thirteen blockbuster books. These include ten novels\u2014Five Point Someone (2004), One Night @ the Call Center (2005), The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008), 2 States (2009), Revolution 2020 (2011), Half Girlfriend (2014), One Indian Girl (2016), The Girl in Room 105 (2018), One Arranged Murder (2020), 400 Days (2021) and three non-fiction titles\u2014 What Young India Wants (2012) Making India Awesome(2015) and India Positive (2019). Chetan\u2019s books have remained bestsellers since their release. Many of his novels have been already adapted into successful Bollywood films such as 3 Idiots, 2 States and Kai Po Che.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The New York Times called him the \u2018the biggest selling English language novelist in India\u2019s history\u2019. Time magazine named him amongst the \u2018100 most influential people in the world\u2019 and Fast Company, USA, listed him as one of the world\u2019s \u2018100 most creative people in business\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Chetan writes editorials for leading English and Hindi newspapers, focusing on youth and national development issues. He is also a motivational speaker, screenplay writer, Youtuber and podcaster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Chetan quit his international investment banking career to devote his entire time to writing and make change happen in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Chetan studied at IIT-Delhi and IIM-Ahmedabad. He is married to Anusha, an ex-classmate from IIM-A, and they have twin boys, Shyam and Ishaan.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">You can email him at\u202finfo@chetanbhagat.com\u202for fill in the Guestbook with your feedback.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7517,"menu_order":137,"template":"","team_designation":[],"team_department":[57],"class_list":["post-7515","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team_department-plenary-speaker-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etnowgbs.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/7515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etnowgbs.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etnowgbs.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etnowgbs.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/etnowgbs.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/7515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9267,"href":"https:\/\/etnowgbs.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/7515\/revisions\/9267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etnowgbs.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etnowgbs.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team_designation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etnowgbs.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_designation?post=7515"},{"taxonomy":"team_department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etnowgbs.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_department?post=7515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}