Riya's letter confesses her love for Madhav but also says that she has only three months in life. The two become successful in their fundraising, but, just after the speech, Riya leaves a letter for him which states that she is in the last stage of lung cancer and has only 3 months left to survive. Riya helps him prepare the speech for the fund. In due course of his struggle, he comes across Riya once again, who is now a divorcee. Madhav tries his best to convince Gates in order to fund his school, but to do so, he has to prepare a speech, preferably in English. Seeing the condition of the school, where there are no proper classes or toilets, Madhav decides to meet the local MLA for financial help, but the MLA sort of refuses to help.Īn opportunity comes when the MLA informs him about a campaign going on where Bill Gates was visiting some schools in Bihar to fund. Finding Delhi to be an unbearable ground of losing Riya, Madhav decides to settle in his hometown, Dumraon, Bihar and help his mother, Rani Sahiba, who runs a school. He demands to get in a physical relation, due to which, offended by his crude ultimatum, Riya parts company with him and tells him not to talk to her anymore in any way.Ī year later, Riya gets married to her childhood friend, Rohan and gets settled in London. Madhav wants to make her girlfriend, but she clearly refuses. They both become close friends due to their common association with basketball. The rich and amazingly beautiful Riya Somani is a girl from Delhi, who is selected through the sports quota, same as Madhav. “Because, in India, that is what most men get", Bhagat said. This is because in a country where boys and girls aren’t clear about their relationship status where a boy may always think he is more than friends with a certain girl, but she is still not his girlfriend, a more appropriate term was needed, hence, ‘'Half girlfriend'.
The girl does not admit to a complete relationship, rather agrees to be his "half girlfriend".Chetan Bhagat once commented that the word ‘Half-Girlfriend’ was a very unique phenomenon, especially when it comes to use in a country like India.
There, he falls in love with a standard high class English-speaking rich Delhi girl schooled at Modern School in Delhi. It is a story of a Bihari boy who tries winning over the girl he loves.ĭedicated to all the "non English-types", as Bhagat wrote, the book promulgates the sentiments and semantic struggles of a backward rural Bhojpuri-laced, Hindi-speaking boy from Bihar whilst he enrolls himself at the prestigious St. The novel is set in a rural area of Bihar, moving further with the change of destinations to New Delhi, Patna, and New York. Half Girlfriend is an Indian young adult romance novel by author Chetan Bhagat.
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