TWO STATES

"LOVE MARRIAGE AROUND WORLD ARE SIMPLE:
GIRL LOVES BOY,BOY LOVES GIRL
THEY GET MARRIED
IN INDIA THERE ARE FEW MORE STEPS
BOY LOVES GIRL,GIRL LOVES BOY
GIRLS FAMILY HAS TO LOVE BOY,BOY'S FAMILY HAS TO LOVE GIRL
GIRLS FAMILY HAS TO LOVE BOY'S FAMILY,BOY'S FAMILY HAS TO LOVE BOY,GIRLS FAMILY. GIRL AND BOY STILL LOVE EACH OTHER THEY GET MARRIED"
THIS IS WHAT CHETAN BHAGAT'S NEW NOVEL 2 STATES TELL ABOUT,ITS A KIND OF PREQUEL TO 5 POINT SOMEONE.
The story is all set around IIM-A,DELHI AND CHENNAI.a boy from Delhi ,ex-iitian Krish meets a Economics university topper from DU,a so called madrasi a tamil-brahmin girl at IIM-A mess and story starts with normal plot from being "just friends " to end up as lover and all things happen what are supposed to happen with two people in same room.The real twists start when Ananya one day asks him what about after graduation,Krish gives expression of confusin and says "i dint think about it?", Krish reaches in dilemma and then starts placement season,where Krish is after the job with highest package,the very 1st day he looses 3 big banks,and thinks god is punishing him because he is hanging Ananya's life.So before he goes to CitiBank's interview,enters Ananya HLL interview room and proposes her in front of interview panel..the scene is superb.After story takes you to another scene where Ananya is in marketing job in Tamil Naidu and Krish still waiting for his location confirmation ,he hangs in between his mother and love on location preference,finally fills up chennai and gets posted there.It starts a difficult job of impressing Ananya's parents which using all his iit and iim intellect finally manages it ,the entire chapter is full of ideas for people to impress would be in-laws.Then the second phrase starts Ananya impressing Krish mother,which is manged by superb beauty of south indian coservative yet modern mind in Krish cousin's marriage.Then the final process of family liking and that strike Krish and Ananya ego and finally a relation gets into pit.Now this makes Krish really out of mental balance,he tries making call to Ananya she rejects it.He went to Chennai she refuses to meet with his condition he reaches to pschyologist where he reveals all these things.Doctor gives him medicine and send him to Delhi.Later next day he gets call from Ananya..and what happens then,let me leave it to readers ,as i would not like to spoil the novel's superb climax.
On overall a superb novel something more then 5 point someone..
4/5 rating..Must read..for people with interstate love relation..
Adieu!!