According To Ashneer Grover, ‘Chetan Bhagat Apni Vellapanti Justify Kar Raha Hai,’ And Writing Books Is Not A Proper Profession.

Former Shark Tank India host Ashneer Grover revealed that he wrote his recently released book, Doglapan, on the spur of the moment, and that it took longer to release the book than it did to write it. In a recent university talk, Ashneer stated that people like Chetan Bhagat and Ankur Warikoo justify their free time by writing books.

Of course, he said it in typical Ashneer style. When asked how he got into this ‘line of work,’ Ashneer replied, “Logon ko lagta hai book likhna ek line hai. Writing books isn’t a profession for Chetan Bhagat and Ankur Warikoo; it’s how they pretend not to be completely aimless. Chetan is an IIT and IIM graduate who went on to become a best-selling author. Warikoo is an internet entrepreneur who creates instructional content. Ashneer is a graduate of IIT.

Ashneer Grover and Chetan Bhagat

Doglapan, Ashneer Grover’s first book, was just released.
Former Shark Tank India host Ashneer Grover revealed that he wrote his recently released book, Doglapan, on the spur of the moment, and that it took longer to release the book than it did to write it. In a recent university talk, Ashneer stated that people like Chetan Bhagat and Ankur Warikoo justify their free time by writing books.

Of course, he said it in typical Ashneer style. When asked how he got into this ‘line of work,’ Ashneer replied, “Logon ko lagta hai book likhna ek line hai. Writing books isn’t a profession for Chetan Bhagat and Ankur Warikoo; it’s how they pretend not to be completely aimless. Chetan is an IIT and IIM graduate who went on to become a best-selling author. Warikoo is an internet entrepreneur who creates instructional content. Ashneer is a graduate of IIT.


In the same conversation, Ashneer discussed how having degrees from IITs or IIMs is unimportant if you want to actually achieve something in life. “Ek baat bata deta hoon, bade saare IIT IIM waale takrenge tumhe life mein, aur hamesha unke chip on the shoulder rahega,” says the author. Or how come aathwi ya ninth class mein sabne taiyyari shuru ki, woh tumhare saath they? Phir kissi ka IIT hogaya, kissi ka IIM hogaya, ab usse lagta hai usne phod diya. This is not the case. IIT and IIM have 80% log float and 20% log phod ke jaate hain. Tum yeh socho, jo IIT gaya aur usne nahi phoda, kya haalat hogi? Andar se toh usko khoklapan lagega na (In your life, you will meet many IIT or IIM graduates, and they will always have a chip on their shoulder because they were once like you. Even in such institutions, however, there is always a distinction between those who float and those who actually do something. Consider the type of person who went to IIT but did nothing with it; they must be feeling hollow on the inside).”

According to Ashneer, at the end of the day, what matters is the work one does, not the degree one holds. He said that degrees are a pathway to earning money, and something that parents pay for their children to get because they want ‘insurance’. He claimed that all of the information that anyone could ever need to succeed is freely available online.

Ashneer did not return for the recently released second season of Shark Tank India after becoming a household name thanks to the successful first season. He didn’t say why, but he recently stated on a podcast that he ‘dominated’ season one. Anupam Mittal and Namita Thapar, two of his fellow’sharks,’ appeared to take veiled digs at him when they said in a recent interview that season two will not have the ‘toxicity’ that people had begun to associate with the show after season one.

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