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• Studied mechanical engineering in college.
• Started as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs and then moved on to Deutsche Bank.
• Published his first book Five Point Someone in 2004, which won him a Indo-American Society's Society Young Achiever's Award in the same year and the Publisher's Recognition Award in 2005.
• Quit his banking job in 2009 to concentrate on his writing career.
• Made his debut as a screenwriter with the movie 3 Idiots (2009).
• Won the CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 2014: Entertainment.