One Indian Girl Paperback – January 10, 2016

I mostly loved this book because it matched personality so well and my reading preferences but it's such an easy read and always engaging and entertaining...I couldn't put it down. TBH I canceled my evening plans one night to simply stay home after work and finish reading this book. It's a well worth read superficially but it also has some very deep points of debate and ingrained "culturalness". I loves and enjoyed the main character's inner voice and it became very easy to relate to her within the first few pages.. It also played in my head like a perfect weekend Bollywood movie so I loved it even more! This was the first book I read by this author so I am eagerly looking forward to choosing another one of his books (after I soak in and relish this book for a few days)!

This will make a great movie! I hope someone is moving in that direction. This story of a nerdy Indian girl who becomes a success in a tough financial field, is filled with humor -self-deprecating and some laugh out loud - and love. It’s a story of self-discovery, family expectations and culture clashes.Although some of the dialogue was a little uneven, the story itself is engaging and I loved the characters. Starting the story from an arranged marriage ceremony and moving backwards into how our very successful, modern heroine arrived there, is compelling.I will definitely be waiting for the movie and in true Bollywood style, there needs to be lots of singing and dancing.

It was a good read indeed(Like watching a Hindi movie). But it's the same old story line with a little bit of different type of twists. But all the same getting bored of the same type of story telling.

I liked this book because it makes an honest attempt to look at things from women's perspective. It is also different in that it describes an atypical Indian girl , and I can almost understand where the characters come from. It does not end in an unexpected way, but yet it ends in a good way. I really enjoyed reading this book. I appreciate that it talks about self respect despite our cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

I expected more. This just seems like one of Akhil Sharma's short stories. I would have liked some more plots or unexpected things. Things were too obvious or too dramatic. Not a style I prefer.

Radhika is someone to whom any other aspiring studious Indian girl could relate to. Many authors described how a normal girl will feel and think about any other guy or her own boyfriend. But this girl, Radhika, is someone, just not a random girl who can simply wave a mini-hi to anyone she looks at and later completely forget about them. Radhika in different, observes almost everything around her and she has an opinion about it be it during her childhood, teenage, graduation or even while she draws lump sum paychecks.Usually when it comes to a studious girl who have that sort of IQ to enter into IITs and crack a interview and gets job worth million dollars, Quickly when we try to visualize her, she may look like this, having curly or a very not-so-straight and not-so-curly medium sized wavy hair on top of a small face and glasses attached to her eyes, confused face with no opinions on anyone because she can hardly analyze a person and not to even bother about boys. In a contrast, Radhika is far different and maybe that’s the reason she’s a novel.I really loved the way how Bhagat let readers visualize how Radhika feels and thinks using her mini-me self whatever the situation might be while aroused or while dealing with her family, fiancée or even her own self. Bhagat did really great job in presenting Radhika on how she handles the situation when her any girl’s-could-be-dream-wedding did call off and how she manages to overcome her past and how Radhika has turned out to be matured enough to rightly analyze a man whom she was dependent on once upon a time and other man in his mid-40’swho came on his knees for Radhika as he literally looks forward for a teenage girl in his life more than anything else. And, the climax of the story has been landed so well that even the readers would be satisfied with the heroine’s decision. Overall I rate this book 9/10. I highly recommend this book and I assure you that you would definitely finish off reading the entire book in no more than 2 days as you would have that urge to get to know what's next?Thank you.

Nice to read feels great. But some part of it bears a filmy theme in Bollywood. Anyways keeps the interest going.... And suspense till the last...

I could relate to the her on various planes and the relationship dramas we get pulled into beyond our control pleasantly surprised since this seems to a new angle for the author would love to read more such works if this would be the theme . Much love