Wow! The set is set! Not in any better way it can be at all plotted. The stage is set to rock and with the last three of Chetan Bhagat’s book becoming a blockbuster in a whisker of time, rather in no time at all, expectations were all high for the latest one. After all he left his MNC career to devote his full time onto writing.

Love marriages are not always very easy to made through. Even these days arranged marriages are also becoming a harder nut to crack. Boy loves Girl; Girl loves Boy and they are married. That is the simplest form that one can find in the un-countable breed of Love Marriages. One doesn’t need a microscope to find in the DNA-strand difference in love marriages and nor the telescope is needed to find in the nearest love marriage. Marriage in itself is a complexity and in this Cosmopolitan India, things get to the extreme at all levels. Be it when a child is born – the first grains he gulped – the marriage – and finally the last ritual (antim yatraa) being done in a way as if a God is born or whatever. Yes, we the Indians find God in our family also. (If there is not any bill that divides the family wealth into 3:7 ratio!)

In 2 States, Chetan Bhagat tried to show the complexity that a love marriage – in larger context, a marriage – can bring in. And if the two poles (North and South) of a diverse country like India are to be brought together, even Feviquick might not be the ultimate solution. Agree or disagree, there is a communication gap in India from every person to person. Bhagat tried to bridge this gap and his effort, as always, tickles the taste buds of every novel lover. The ‘twist and turn of words’ is the patent style of his writing and that adds to the salt and pepper!

At one go I finished this new addition to my favorites. Krish and Ananya live in my heart now. The beautiful love story mixed with the Punjabi tardka and the Tamil coconut chutney is a ‘mouth watering’ addition to anyone’s book-self. After every page, I felt a pinch to pause… I don’t want to rush through the book at one go… but it happened… not once, but twice at one go…

I can only say… a must read…! Well done Chetan…