Like his first three novels, 2 States focuses on the Young India that Bhagat knows best: highly ambitious university students, the drab existence of entry-level employees and scandalous inter-community love affairs.

Krish, a Punjabi boy, and Ananya, a Tamil Brahmin, are IIM-A classmates who fall in love, despite their respective families' protestations. The book charts their rocky road to marriage, while simultaneously exploring a wider theme about Modern India coming together and overcoming its many internal and self-inflicted divisions.

But, more so than his first three efforts, 2 States is semi-autobiographical, and is modelled on the story of Bhagat's own marriage.

Here, in a three-part video interview, Bhagat discusses a wide range of topics: his new book, the young generation, literature and cinema in India and a possible future for himself in politics.

"We're just not a nation that reads enough," he laments.

But he's encouraged at the positive response young, urban India has given his books thus far. The literature scene, he says, "is changing."

It's a strange duality -- the derision and scorn of 'experts' and the adulation of fans -- that Bhagat feels every time he puts pen to paper.

This time, however, he says reviews have been more positive, partially because he employed a whole platoon of editors to clean up his copy.