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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  The 3 Mistakes
  
  of My Life
  
  A Story about Business, Cricket and Religion
  
  Chetan Bhagat
  
   **Rupa & Co**
  
  _Acknowledgements_
  
  My readers, you that is, to whom I owe all my success and motivation. My
  
  life belongs to you now, and serving you is the most meaningful thing I can do
  with my
  
  life. I want to share something with you. I am very ambitious in my writing
  goals.
  
  However, I don't want to be India's most admired writer. I just want to be
  India's
  
  most loved writer. Admiration passes, love endures.
  
  To Shinie Antony, a friend who has been with me all these years and who
  
  critically reviews my work and ensures that it is fit for my reader's
  consumption. My
  
  family, which continues to support me in all my ventures. Specially, my
  brother Ketan
  
  Bhagat for his critical feedback from Sydney and cricket freak brother-in-law
  Anand
  
  Suryanaryan who told me more about cricket than anyone else would have.
  
  The people of Gujarat, in par