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  My family—Anusha, Ishaan, Shyam, Ketan, Anand, Pia, Poonam, Rekha, Kalpana, and Suri. My publishers Rupa & Co, an unpretentious, hardworking, high-quality, and caring company that holds its own despite head-on competition with every other foreign publisher in town. Such companies make India proud. I specifically thank the people there who worked extra hard on my last book. Lastly, Mr. Bill Gates and Microsoft for MS Word. I could not have written this without the software.

  About the Author

  CHETAN BHAGAT lives in Hong Kong and works in investment banking. He is married with young twins. One Night at the Call Center is a bestseller in India and is due to be published around the world.

  Find out more on: www.chetanbhagat.com

  One Night at the Call Center is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

  Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  A Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Original

  Copyright © 2005 by Chetan Bhagat

  All rights reserved.

  Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

  BALLANTINE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

  Originally published in India by Rupa & Co., New Delhi in 2005.

  Subsequently published in Great Britain by Transworld Publishers, a division of The Random House Group, Ltd., London.

  Excerpt from the Bhagavad Gita is taken from www.krishna.com, copyright © 1972 the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International. Used with permission.

  This edition published by arrangement with Transworld Publishers, a division of The Random House Group, Ltd.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-48908-1

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Bhagat, Chetan.

  [One night @ the call center]

  One night at the call center : a novel / by Chetan Bhagat.

  p. cm.

  Previously published as: One night @ the call center.

  1. Call centers—India—Fiction. 2. Thanksgiving Day—Fiction. I. Title.

  PR9499.3.B424054 2007

  823′.92—dc22 2006101288

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