One Indian Girl by Chetan Bhagat

Craig raised his glass and touched it to mine. I took another sip of my champagne. ‘I never mentioned him,’ I said. ‘Well, today ...

I could hear crowd noises around him. ‘Where are you now?’ I said. ‘I came downstairs for a drink with my team.’ ‘Debu? You were ...

another slice for him, just in case. I reached home. Debu was sitting on the sofa, hypnotized by ESPN. ‘What the.. .you are here ...

‘What do you mean? So I didn’t come to a stupid banker thing. Big deal.’ I stood up and slammed my fist on the table. ‘It was no ...

‘W 14 e made a ten-million-dollar investment. We will now recover thirty-six million dollars,’ I said. I made my final comments ...

‘Hi, this is Radhika Mehta from the New York office,’ I said. I had dialled into a conference call with our Asian office in Hong ...

I stretched my arms above my head. ‘It’s a new deal. Company gone bust, factories in China,’ I said. ‘Yeah, and you guys are try ...

‘I will. Soon.’ ‘I thought you said you would.’ ‘I will, Radhika. Don’t keep pushing me so much. See, this is what I mean. You h ...

‘So I am thinking. I don’t know. I had this idea of what the mother of my kids would be like.’ ‘Huh? Mother of your kids?’ I sai ...

Within a few minutes he was asleep. I, on the other hand, kept awake all night, wondering what I would do if the one man who lov ...

‘Five. Just an hour earlier,’ I lied. I hadn’t slept at all. ‘You do look tired.’ ‘It’s okay. I will be fine.’ I cut a piece of ...

‘Will you stop it? Stop calling me high-flying or whatever. When you do well I am happy for you. Am I not? Why can’t you be?’ He ...

‘W 15 hoa, big party night yesterday?’ Jonathan said. We sat in the meeting room waiting for others to arrive. ‘No, I was at hom ...

I called Debu. He cut my call. I called twice again. ‘Can you call me?’ I sent him a message. He didn’t respond. I came back to ...

‘Please, Debu. The house is so empty without you,’ I said. I held on to the pole in the subway compartment. Debu had left home f ...

response. ‘How do you say “stop bothering me” nicely?’ came his reply. I poured myself a fourth glass. I needed to pass out and, ...

A 16 month after Debu left we closed the Luxvision deal. The China factory site did have real- estate potential. With the right ...

How did Passenger know what I was going through? God, I missed Debu. I wanted him to hold me like he did every night. It meant m ...

‘Brooklyn Heights, please.’ The taxi took the FDR, crossed Brooklyn Bridge and entered Brooklyn. It took me forty minutes to rea ...

‘You want to go home?’ I nodded. ‘Come, we can drop you at the subway station.’ I sat in a police car for the first time in my l ...