Half Girlfriend - Chetan Bhagat

Half Girlfriend is an Indian English coming of age, young adult romance fiction by Indian author, Chetan Bhagat. The novel, set in rural Bihar, New Delhi, Patna and New York, is the story of a Bihari Boy in quest of winning over the girl he loves. This is Bhagat’s sixth novel and was released on October 1, 2014 by Rupa Publications. The novel has also been published in Hindi and Gujarati versions as well.

Dedicated to “non English-types”, the book divulges the sentiments and linguistic struggles of a backward rural Bhojpuri-laced Hindi speaking boy from Bihar as he enrolls himself at the prestigious English-medium St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, and falls in love with a “high class English speaking rich Delhi girl”. The girl, not really interested in a relationship, agrees to be his “half girlfriend”. Chetan Bhagat commented, “Half-Girlfriend, to me, is a unique Indian phenomenon, where boys and girls are not clear about their relationship status with each other. A boy may think he is more than friends with the girl, but the girl is still not his girlfriend. Hence, I thought we needed a term like ‘Half girlfriend’. Because, in India, that is what most men get.”


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