A romantic idealist, Somashish Mukherjee, a.k.a Som, learns the first lesson of his life when he is spurned in love. Crestfallen, he leaves Kolkata and heads to Delhi in search of better luck.
The capital holds many surprises in store for Som. He finds a job in a public relations firm and makes friends, only to lose everything in a sinister conspiracy. Like a fish pulled out of water and flung straight into hot soup, Som struggles for survival. He tries
Even as the obsession with everything ‘foreign’ continues unabated among India’s middle classes, something did change in the later part of the millennium’s first decade.
Students, Expatriates, Non-Resident Indians and Persons of Indian Origin are flying by the planeloads to a resurgent country– a land that defies logic and one that is not easy to navigate. It is a return trip for some, a two-way journey for many and a one-way ticket for several