Let’s get the facts out of the way. Chetan Bhagat is the highest-selling Indian writer in English, and no one else even comes close. As an insider in the publishing industry, I know how secretly his manuscripts are guarded, how meticulously the releases are planned, and how much money is at stake for all the players. Without a doubt, he was the first role-model-celebrity-writer for the youth at the time, and maybe even now. Writers competent and incompetent, readers old and new, and reviewers and critics hardly anyone reads, have devoted a lot of space—far more than necessary—to evaluating his writing, so I won’t comment on it.