KEEP OFF THE GRASS

Details:

• ISBN: 9788184982602

• Edition: 1

• Publishing Year: August 2011

• Pages: 179

• Language: Translated from English to Marathi

• Category: Fiction

• Publisher: Mehta Publishing House

• Binding: Paperback

Description:

What do you do when you're a 25-year-old Yale graduate, making half a million dollars a year as a hotshot investment banker on Wall Street? If you're like Samrat Ratan, born in the USA to immigrant Indian parents, you do the unexpected: you quit and enroll in business school in India instead.

Samrat’s rollercoaster journey begins at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Bangalore, where his world takes a strange turn. Instead of continuing his successful career trajectory, Samrat spends his time getting high on marijuana, and his grades and self-confidence begin to plummet. His quest for identity spirals into increasingly bizarre territory, pushing him into uncharted experiences.

From prison to meditating stoned with a sexy Danish hippie in the Himalayas, hanging out with a cannibal on the banks of the Ganga, and even peddling soap to the formidable Raja Bhaiya in Varanasi, Samrat’s life becomes a whirlwind of unexpected events. The novel tracks his search for meaning and self-discovery, asking if Samrat – Yale valedictorian, investment banker, convict, and pothead – will survive his fall from grace.

This hilarious and poignant story invites readers to reflect on ambition, identity, and the unpredictable paths life can take when we dare to break away from conventional expectations.