AUTHOR of the bestselling title Dork: The Incredible Adventures of Robin ‘Einstein’ Varghese , Sidin Vadukut, is in the city today launch his book.
Vadukut is a journalist, columnist and blogger. He has an engineering degree from NIT Trichy and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. In a career spanning around a decade he has made automotive parts, developed online trading platforms, almost set up a retailing company and had a sizeable portion of a tree fall on his head. He blogs at http://www.whatay.com.
Dork: The Incredible Adventures of Robin ‘Einstein’ Varghese is the hilarious story of Robin Varghese, super-dork and unlikely corporate hero. It is the first volume of the Dork trilogy.
In April 2006 Robin ‘Einstein’ Varghese, a stupendously naive but academically gifted young man (he was ranked 41st in his class), graduates from one of India’s best business schools with a Day-Zero job at the Mumbai office of Dufresne Partners, a mediocre midmarket management consulting firm largely run by complete morons.
Varghese finds that he fits into the culture remarkably well. Or does he? Through a stunning series of blunders, mishaps and inadvertent errors, Robin begins to make his superiors rue the day they were driven by desperation into hiring him. To make matters worse, Robin realises that his mad, passionate, steamy one-sided relationship with Bschool batchmate Gouri Kalbag might be over before it even started.
With things going spectacularly wrong, will he manage to achieve his short-term goal of being promoted to Associate in under a year, and beat the record set by Boris Nguyen at Dufresne’s Vietnam office? Will love conquer all? Will Gouri walk with him through Dadar Department Stores with her hand in the rear pocket of his jeans? Join the author as he navigates Robin’s first insane year at Dufresne Partners at Crossword, JP Nagar, today, 7 pm.
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