Stephens, as his English wasn't good enough. He starts by describing his trouble entering St. Chetan Bhagat calls him up the next morning to hear his story. Madhav Jha, a rural boy from Dumraon, a village in Bihar, comes to meet the author, who is actually Chetan Bhagat, and leaves behind a few journals from his half-girlfriend, who he believes has died. Because, in India, that is what most men get.' Plot Hence, I thought we needed a term like 'half girlfriend'. A boy may think he is more than friends with the girl, but the girl is still not his 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. The girl does not openly claim the relationship but agrees to be his 'half girlfriend'. Stephen’s College in New Delhi, and falls in love with a 'high class English-speaking rich Delhi girl' schooled at the Modern School in the same city. ĭedicated to 'non English-types', as Chetan Bhagat wrote, 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. The novel has also been published in Hindi and Gujarati. This is Bhagat's sixth novel, which was released on 1 October 2014 by Rupa Publications. The novel, set in rural Bihar, New Delhi, Patna, and New York, is the story of a Bihari boy on a quest of winning over the girl he loves. Half Girlfriend is an Indian English coming of age, young adult romance novel by Indian author Chetan Bhagat.

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