Karan Bajaj is the newest entrant to the Indian author scene. His first book "Keep off the Grass" (KOTG) just released last month and has been fairly well received by the audience.
KOTG is yet another of those books whose characters and strory revolves around India's top educational institutions and in this case, IIMB. I am not sure if Karan had any inspiration for penning this book from Chatan Bhagat's first book - "Five Point Someone" which dealt with IIT life.
The story revolves around Samrat Ratan, US citizen born to immigrant Indians, Yale graduate and an investment banker in a top Manhattan financial institution who leaves everything back and travels to India and enrolls in IIMB to search for his roots. The book unravels his time at IIMB and his unraveling of India and himself. One peculiar thing about the story is the amount of substances/drugs used and consumed by the protagonists in the story which makes me wonder if IIM's indeed have such a facility or if it is just fiction.
The book is nice to read and not heavy on mind, though philosophical at times. I got the book one night and finished it by the next afternoon. I would recommend this one over Chetan's 3rd book - "3 Mistakes of My Life". The book also was a semi-finalist at Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.
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