Chetan Bhagat's "2 States" is about true love's not-so-smooth course. It's about the problems Krish, a Punjabi, and Ananya a Tamilian Brahmin, face when they want to get married and the families are opposed to it. However, the two seek their parents' approval and choose not to elope. They meet in IIM Ahmedabad. Krish is an IIT graduate and Ananya is a graduate in economics. They live together for 2 yrs there. Story shifts from IIM Ahmedabad to Chennai where Ananya parents are and then to Delhi, home to Krish's parents. Krish finds a job in Chennai and ingratiates himself with A's family by doing the parents and her brother several favors. Takes Ananya to meet his mother -- father is discounted. Father is a military man with an evil temper, beats his wife. Some childhood trauma is described which accounts for the strained relationship between the father and the son. (When Krish was a teenager, he struck his father.) Mother is important to him, so he won't have her upset. Ananya has quite a formidable task ahead of her when she visits Delhi with Krish. They attend a wedding -- last minute complications regarding dowry threaten to stop it. Ananya rounds up the youth including the groom and gives them a talking to. Lo! the wedding is on again. It was a feel good novel, an Indian Mills and Boon. I liked Chetan Bhagat's easy flowing style. There was no awkwardness in dialogue. He even got a few chuckles out of me.
