Keep off the Grass

Karan Bajaj

Karan Bajaj’s debut novel reminds me a lot of Chetan Bhagat’s first work, perhaps because of the similarity in milieu- IIT and IIM. Karan Bajaj is an IIM alumnus, and so this does seem a bit autobiographical. Well, even if its not, its definitely introspective, and is at its root, a person’s search for himself.
Samrat Ratan is the protagonist, who takes a break from his hotshot investment banking life on Wall Street, and gets into IIM-Bangalore. Its an interesting book, if not spectacular, and is definitely worth a read, if only for the analytic construction of the final lesson ‘ happiness is about being comfortable in your own skin…. living a life of your own, and not an imitation of someone else’s reality’
Of course, even that is only a perspective, but it happens to be one I agree with :)






Related posts:

  1. The Grass Crown
  2. Bombay Time
  3. Pink Pepper

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

This entry was posted in Books and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink.

2 Responses to Keep off the Grass

  1. Madhumita says:

    I persnally found Keep Off a much better read than Chetan Bhagat’s rather over rated Five Point someone … he managed to keep it real but layered – quite engrossing.

    Btw, love you site sections on restaurant reviews – you eat (out) a lot! :)

    • manuscrypts says:

      much as i hate to do it, i might have to read FPS all over again to firmly comment on that :D FPS was marketed well, i think..
      heh, yes, that i do :)
      now to get OPM to read the blog ;)

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>