title: Making India Awesome - New Essays and columns
author:  Chetan Bhagat 
description: Chetan Bhagat is the author of seven blockbuster books. These include six novels-Five 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)-and the nonfiction title What Young India Wants (2012). Chetan's books have remained bestsellers since their release. Many of his novels have been adapted into successful Bollywood films. The New York Times called him 'the biggestselling English language novelist in India's history'. TIME magazine named him amongst the '100 most influential people in the world' and Fast Company, USA, listed him as one of the world's '100 most creative people in business'. Chetan writes columns for leading English and Hindi newspapers, focusing on youth and national development issues. He is also a motivational speaker and screenplay writer. Chetan quit his international investment banking career in 2009 to devote his entire time to writing and make change happen in the country. He lives in Mumbai with his wife, Anusha, an exclassmate from IIMA, and his twin boys, Shyam and Ishaan.
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  ## MIHIR S. SHARMA
  
  
  
  
  
  ### RESTART
  
  
  #### The Last Chance for the Indian Economy
  
  
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  RANDOM HOUSE INDIA
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CONTENTS
  
  
  [_Introduction: ‘What is the matter with India?’_](part0003.html)
  
  
  [PART I: DEATH BY LIME REGISTER](part0004.html)
  
  
  [Roads and judges](part0005.html)
  
  
  [Why we can’t build](part0006.html)
  
  
  [There is a tide](part0007.html)
  
  
  [Three big questions](part0008.html)
  
  
  [The Mahatma’s malign legacy](part0009.html)
  
  
  [A future unwoven](part0010.html)
  
  
  [The nice, kindly government inspector](part0011.html)
  
  
  [The Manchester of the past](part0012.html)
  
  
  [Men who guard machines](part0013.html)
  
  
  [Tea-shop truths](part0014.html)
  
  
  [The dangerous Indian dream](part0015.html)
  
  
  [The wrong schools, the wrong skills](part0016.html)
  
  
  [Honesty always flops](part0017.html)
  
  
  [PART II: THE STAINS OF PAST SINS](part0018.html)
  
  
  [‘India is wide awake’](part0019.html)
  
  
  [The fires of ’91](part0020.html)
  
  
  [Where Rao we