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Keep Off The Grass
Keep Off The Grass
Keep Off The Grass
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Keep Off The Grass

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What do you do when you are a twenty-five-year-old Yale graduate making half-a-million dollars a year as a hotshot investment banker on Wall Street? You bust your ass and become a millionaire by thirty, of course.Not if you are Samrat Ratan, born in the USA to immigrant Indian parents; you quit and enrol in business school in India instead.Samrat's rollercoaster journey begins at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Bangalore, where he spends his time getting high on marijuana while his grades - and self-confidence - plummet. Soon, Samrat's quest for identity turns increasingly bizarre as it takes him places he hadn't planned on visiting - prison, for example - and makes him do things he hadn't banked on doing: 'meditating' stoned with a sexy Danish hippie in the Himalayas, hanging out with a cannibal on the banks of the Ganga, and peddling soap to the formidable Raja Bhaiya in Benares. Does Samrat - Yale valedictorian, investment banker, convict, pothead - survive his fall from grace?
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
Release dateDec 1, 2013
ISBN9789350292877
Keep Off The Grass
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Karan Bajaj

Karan Bajaj is the author of Keep Off the Grass (2008) and The Seeker (2015), all of which were #1 bestsellers in India. He was recognized as India Today's Top 35 Under 35 Indians and shortlisted for the Indiaplaza Golden Quill, Crossword Book Pick, and Teacher's Achievement Awards (Literary) among other honours.

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    I have been ranting how shallow the campus books are. Especially, the likes of Chetan Bhagat with his bestseller Five Point Someone and my recent read Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls by Anirban Bose have prejudiced my mind about the credibility of such stories. Then I come across this book. An Indian Yale graduate earning half a million in Wall Street retires to India for some soul searching; and here is the stunner, at IIM Bangalore to pursue his MBA - or in other words to buy himself some time.The story revolves and evolves around his new addiction - marijuana (grass) and his quirky and uncanny ways of soul searching. How his soul searching exercise translates into lower grades and the money hungry, power hungry environment of B-school wouldn't let him escape the reasons of his departure from Wall Street. The book is simultaneously hillarious and serious. Not a masterpiece but definitely worth one or more reads.By the way, this book is a semi-finalist for Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, although finally it could not get into the shortlist. Probably because of it's culture specific story, this couldn't make into the top 10. Still I'll recommend if you can pay 95 bucks (INR) for a trashcan like Chetan Bhagat, you can spare 195 bucks (INR) for this book, too - at least it has better pages and a better story.

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