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In late 2000, a young boy in Ahmedabad, Govind, dreamt of owning a business. To accommodate his friends Ish and Omi's passion, they open a cricket shop. However, nothing comes easy in a turbulent city. To realise their goals, they will have to face it all -- religious politics, calamities,... read more

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The novel, based on fictional events, is set in the years 2000-2005, when a young boy in Ahmedabad named Govind dreams of starting a business.To accommodate his friends Ishaan and Omi's passion, they open a cricket shop. However, each has a different motive: Govind's goal is to make money;... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

The novel, based on fictional events, is set in the years 2000-2005, when a young boy in Ahmedabad named Govind dreams of starting a business.To accommodate his friends Ishaan and Omi's passion, they open a cricket shop. However, each has a different motive: Govind's goal is to make money; Ishaan desires to nurture Ali, a gifted batsman; Omi just wants to be with his friends. Govind is the narrator and the central character of the novel, and the story revolves around the three mistakes caused by him and the religious politics.

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  • Ali's father: He is a devout Muslim and works for a secular party. He is a very kind-hearted person who wants Ali to take his education seriously despite his mediocre financial condition. He treats the three friends very well when they go to visit Ali in his house. Overall he is a good person.
  • Ishant or Ish: Govinds friend. His dad wanted him to join the NDA but Ishaant wanted to be a cricketer. He has run away from the NDA. This leads to constant fights with his dad. He is enormously into cricket and figures into those select fervid indian cricket followers which makes India a cricket Crazy nation
  • Omi: Omi is the third of the friends. He is the son of the head priest of the temple. He is a simpleton who just likes to hang around with friends. He joins the business because he doesnot want to be a priest like his dad.He is being portrayed as the dumbest among the trio.
  • Ali: The gifted (muslim)boy who has the potential in him to be the number one player in the team. Ishaant sees the potential and takes him under his wings and trains him to be a cricketer.
  • Vidya: Vidya is Ishaant's younger sister who is preparing for her medical entrance exams and who hates Maths. Govind takes on the responsibility of teaching Maths to Vidya.She is a adventurer and explorer, one who wants to break free and shatter all the old and progress blocking traditions.
  • Bitoo Mama: Mama is Omi's uncle who has become a worker of a hindu political party and he also helps omi,ish andnarrator to set up the book by providing them with shop and later helps out with funding to resurrect their business wrecked up due to the bhuj earthquake....
  • Govind Patel: Govind Patel is an ordinary guy with whom anybody can relate. He has very few desires but he is obsessed with the desires he covets. His main ambition is to become a businessman as he thinks that being a Gujarati, business is in his blood. His best friends are Omi and Ish (Ishaan). Govind is an agnostic. His father has abandoned him and his mother, who runs a business of selling home-made food items. To support her financially, he takes mathematics tuitions. He continues these tuitions even after starting the cricket shop business. He is the narrator of this story and the one who makes the "Three Mistakes". During the course of the story he falls in love with Vidya, Ishan's younger sister for whom he is a private tutor. Govind is the one who looks after the financial part of the business as he has good business sense and mathematical skills.
  • Fred Li: He's an Australian Cricket Team member and a fast bowler. He invites the three friends and Ali to Sydney when they travel to Goa to see India-Australia One Day International and meet him in the stands. He spots talent in Ali and wants to help him getting a chance to be trained in his academy in Australia.
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  • “A 'very good friend' is a dangerous category with Indian girls. From here you can either make fast progress or if you play it wrong, you can go down to the lowest category invented by the Indian women ever - rakhi brother. Rakhi brother really means 'you can talk to me, but don't even freaking think about anything else you bore'.”
    Govind

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It is not everyday you sit in front of your computer on a Saturday morning and get an email like this

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  1. Chetan Bhagat (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Rupa and Co.
Country: India
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 8129113724
Page Count: 278

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Reading Level: Young Adults

Simple language. Lot of profanity.

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