Anything For You Ma'am

I read this book over the weekend. Subtitled 'An IITian's Love Story', this book is authored by Tushar Raheja, a 4th year BTech student at IIT Delhi.
It chronicles the events that take place as Tejas Narula, a third year student at IIT, devices a plan to undertake a journey from Delhi to Chennai, to meet his girlfriend Shreya, whom he first met as a close friend of his cousin.
Being a story about an IITian, written by an IITian, comparisons with Chetan Bhagat's 'Five Point Someone' are inevitable. I loved FPS (but as a one time read); I enjoyed this one as well (perhaps because I spent some years there myself ?). In my opinion, however, there is little similarity between the two books. For one, Bhagat's book primarily traced the life of three students through their years at IIT - triumphs and mishaps (mostly the mishaps) - that they encounter on their way to achieve an engineering degree from the prestigious insti, albeit with a poor CGPA (5.something). Tushar's book is about the romantic side of a young adult - who is as normal as any other guy in this respect, even though he might be an IITian. It touches the rest of the insti environment only peripherally. Granted there is the DISCO, and the industrial tour, which are central to the plot, but these cannot be considered as exclusive IIT dominions. Secondly Bhagat's writing is more mature - the characters are much better developed, and the flow and style good. The flow and style is something that is sadly missing in Tushar's book (I dont mind about the characters too much, given the context of the story). At several places, the sentences are not well formed - appear to be broken English resulting from a literal translation from Hindi. Another drawback is the attempt to play with the chronological order of the events. I have read quite a few books that take you back and forth in time very effectively through the narrative - enhancing the interest in the story . However, this does not work well in Tushar's case. The plus point is the content - the chain of events is amusing, as are the pranks played by the protagonist. So, except at some places where the author tends to digress a little bit too much, it was fun.