In a promotional video for his new book One Indian Girl, author Chetan Bhagat confessed getting waxed to understand the pain his protagonist Radhika Mehta felt. Bhagat has been flooding social media to promote his ninth novel set to release on October 1 which has been written in female first person. Last month, he got heavily mocked for his phrased promotional stunt "Chetan Bhagat is back! This time as a girl"
In an interview on his blog, the novelist said, 'I often found women mysterious, particularly in the way they think. I felt it would be interesting to get in their head. I wrote on feminism because it isn't an equal world for women, and most men (and even several women) don't even realize it. As a writer, I want to highlight issues in society that affect a lot of people. Feminism affects us all.'
Recently, he released a video in which he talked about his painful waxing experience, further telling girls that they have his respect. “Obviously, it’s not easy to figure out girls as a man, so some really unusual things I had to do. One of those things was waxing and all I have to say is - girls, lot of respect! Because when I got it done, it was really really painful. And to think that girls do this regularly, maybe, like every month, was quite an experience for me,” said Chetan.
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However, he faced a backlash from many women who rebuked him for setting 'waxing' as benchmark to 'get into a woman's head'.
