Sagar Chudesara

Sagar Chudesara wasn't born into a family of writers. There were no bookshelves lined with literary classics, no creative writing workshops, no MFA degree. He was a regular college student in Gujarat who had failed — multiple times — and didn't know what to do with himself.

In 2015, during one of his lowest points, he started writing — not for publication, not for fame, but because the stories in his head had nowhere else to go. Sitting on terraces, riding trains, drifting through road trips across India, he filled four handwritten diaries with the raw, unfiltered story of friendship that would eventually become We Are There For Each Other.

"Without destruction, there is no creation. You can't build a new tower without demolishing the old structure that had cracks all over it."

He wrote two complete drafts. Both were scrapped. The story kept evolving, refusing to settle into its final form. In 2018, his friend Mansi Patel took on the impossible task of typing the entire manuscript from his handwritten notebooks — four diaries of messy handwriting turned into something a publisher could read.

In 2020, the book was finally published by Paper Publication. The first print run sold out. Readers started sharing it across Instagram and WhatsApp — not because of marketing campaigns, but because the story felt personal. It felt like theirs.

"We all search for just one friend with whom we can simply be who we are. Harsh was that person for Sagar."

By 2025, the store went live — bringing the book directly to readers. And by 2026, Sagar's debut novel had crossed 2,00,000 copies sold, earning its place as one of India's most-loved friendship stories. The boy who failed in college became a national bestselling author — not through connections or luck, but through a story too honest to ignore.