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After the Media Launch of Married But Available at City Select Mall in Saket, New Delhi the next city was Kolkata. My first novel Mediocre But Arrogant was launched on 3rd August 2005 at the Oxfordbookstore, Kolkata. This time it was at the Crossword on Elgin Road, Kolkata. Loved the store for its great layout. Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee, the actor read out excerpts from the book. He read out excerpts that made people really senti. The book should be reaching all the bookstores in India by 10th October 2008.
The launch of “Married But Available” was covered by The Hindu, in its online edition dated 2nd October 2008 for the Metro Plus section aimed at the Delhi readers.
| “Married But Available”, the sequel to “Mediocre But Arrogant”, is now on the shelves |
HarperCollins India and Crossword hosted the launch of “Married But Available” by Abhijit Bhaduri at Select City Walk mall, Saket, recently. It is a sequel to his debut novel “Mediocre But Arrogant”. The book traces the protagonist Abbey’s life, amid circumstances that catch him unawares.
The multifaceted Bhaduri, has illustrated several books and is an accomplished cartoonist too. He has a job with an IT major and has also hosted a popular radio show, Movie Magic, about classic Hindi movies and film music.
The storyline
The sequel was eagerly awaited by his readers. Commenting on the book, the author said, “The first 10 years are the most eventful in anybody’s working life. In the book they certainly are in the case of Abbey, who walks into a job at Balwanpur Industries, fresh from B-school and soon he discovers that working for HR (Human Resources) is great. But the fact is that there’s hardly anybody in the company who doesn’t have a view of who Abbey is and what Abbey does — or should do.”
The author adds to it “the complications of being newly married to a woman more successful than he is, a crusty boss, and a sudden turn in the company’s fortunes which catches Abbey unawares. And the rest is up to him now, to apply all that HR wisdom learnt in business school to the dilemmas confronting him at work and in love.”
On the Net, I came across this post by Jamshed Rajan (also known as India’s funniest blogger popularly known to his readers as Jammy). He has written this post in his “What If” series. “What If” Jammy launched Married But Available. Here are excerpts -
6.00 p.m.: Abhijit Bhaduri is prancing up and down the corridor waiting for the guests (read invitees like me….) to arrive.
6.15 p.m.: The first guests arrive. Most are his relatives, and friends who couldn’t refuse….or weren’t lucky enough to fall sick. A few of them are cursing him for launching a book on a weekend.
6.30 p.m.: Some fifty odd people have gathered. The publishers are now prancing up and down the corridor…they are waiting for the journalists to arrive, who like the police in Hindi movies, always arrive late.
There is much more to read on Jammys site to check it out…
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