Mediocre But Arrogant - a novel about love and life in a Business School

This is the blog of Abhijit Bhaduri the author of the novel Mediocre But Arrogant and now the soon-to-be published sequel titled Married But Available (another M-B-A)! It is a funny story of how an unambitious undergrad from Delhi Univ lands up in the highly competitive Management Institute of Jamshedpur (MIJ), India. How the two years in B-School change him, his dreams and his relationships. MARRIED BUT AVAILABLE is about the first decade that Abbey spends in corporate India.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

This Blog has Moved to http://abhijitbhaduri.com

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HI I finally saved enough money to buy my own piece of real estate - on the web. It took a while. Royalty payments are slow to take off. So...
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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Of Balladeers and Dreamers

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M usic does these strange things. It cuts across boundaries. While words tend to have walls around them when you mix music and turn words in...
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Monday, March 31, 2008

Sleepless in Seattle

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I am a nervous traveller. Before I travel, I would ideally like to be at peace. Here is what I want it to be like. I should be able pack my ...
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Sunday, March 02, 2008

Sarod Less Travelled

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India is a rare country with two equally well developed traditions of Classical Music - Hindustani (from Northern India) and Carnatic (from...
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Monday, February 25, 2008

Love Letters

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G urgaon has over the last few years begun to be known for many things - malls, Call Centers and BPOs and lack of infrastructure. Going to s...
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Sunday, February 03, 2008

World Book Fair, New Delhi 2-10 February 2008

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This year should see a spate of Indian books. From graphic novels to cookbooks. From Science Fiction to Short Stories, the publishers are re...
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Sunday, January 20, 2008

India Finally Achieves Perth Control

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T his is my 100th blog entry. My hundredth run in the world of blogging. So it is about a topic I have never written about - cricket. I may ...
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Sunday, December 30, 2007

This One is for the Birds

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1938 - A shooting party headed by the then Viceroy of India shot a maximum of 4,273 birds on 12th November. 1965 - The last leopard was shot...
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Friday, December 28, 2007

2008 - The Year of the Bookworm?

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T he Chinese calendar has dubbed 2008 as the Year of the Rat - actually it is the Chinese Brown Earth (Soil) Rat Year . So one would imagine...
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Sunday, December 16, 2007

Hai Koi MICA Lal?

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O nce upon a time I used to live in Ahmedabad. And I used to work for the ad agency called Mudra Communications . Those were heady days for ...
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Sunday, November 18, 2007

AR Rahman - Yeh Dil Maange More

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W hat would you need to do if you wanted to listen to AR Rahman, Hariharan, Chitra, Kailash Kher and Rapper Blaze in Delhi . You had to go t...
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Saturday, November 10, 2007

Promo No Mo

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For the last couple of years (well, it almost seems like forever) I have been subjected to this endless stream of promos of two films - Om S...
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Sunday, October 14, 2007

You Made Us Proud

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On the flight from Frankfurt to Amsterdam's Schipol airport, I am seated next to Mr B Muthuraman, the Managing Director of Tata Steel ...
Thursday, October 04, 2007

HarperCollins to Print MARRIED BUT AVAILABLE

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It is official. I am going with HarperCollin s. The publishing giant HarperCollins , one of the largest English-language publishers in the w...
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Saturday, September 22, 2007

The Royalty and Other Fictional Characters

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Who on earth thought of this cruel term called royalty? There is nothing royal about it. It is bloody unfair to term the few coins we author...
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Friday, September 14, 2007

Letter from Kaushik Roy - the Director of Apna Asmaan

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Hey Abhijit, great reading your bit about Apna Asmaan in your blog. Wanted to post this there but realised that this to long. May be you ha...
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Saturday, September 08, 2007

Apna Asmaan - Now In Theatres Near You

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S ometime back I have blogged here about my acting in a movie. The movie has now got released under the name Apna Asmaan अपना आसमान । Yeste...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Hindi Translation of Mediocre But Arrogant

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I have often been asked if there is a Hindi Translation of Mediocre But Arrogant around the corner. I am looking for someone who can transla...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

The RDB Generation Celebrates 60 Years of Independent India

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Today is 15th August 2007. Since morning my phone has been beeping. Each time someone sends me an sms I am given a gentle electronic nudge. ...
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Sunday, August 12, 2007

Brilliant Idea for Software Developers

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If you ever wrote a Job Description for an author or an aspiring writer, one criteria should be spelt out in bold letters - the ability to h...
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Saturday, August 04, 2007

How to Get Your Novel Published?

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And You Thought Writing the Novel Was the Hard Part? You have the novel ready. And you are now ready to count the steady flow of royalty. Yo...
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Sunday, July 29, 2007

Meeting the Dalai Lama

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Om Mani Padme Hum Nestled in the Dhauladhar Mountain is McLeodganj one of the most sought after destinations in Himachal Pradesh. The ...
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Saturday, July 07, 2007

The Write Time for a Vacation

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Memories of Sojha The evening before I left apple country Thanedhar, I made a quick stop at the sole church at Thanedhar ie the St Mary...
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Thursday, June 28, 2007

The Write Time for a Vacation

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It is tough to hold a day job and finish writing a sequel. So I decided on impulse to just go somewhere inspiring and speed up my sequel (te...
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Abhijit Bhaduri
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Abhijit Bhaduri is the Chief Learning Officer of Wipro Ltd and is based out of Bangalore,India. He did his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce, India and Post Graduation in Human Resources from Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur, India. He also has a Bachelors degree in Law from the University of Delhi. He loves theatre and has acted in plays staged in India, Kuala Lumpur and US. He hosted a popular radio show in US, about classic Hindi movies and film music. The ever popular B School novel - MEDIOCRE BUT ARROGANT is his debut novel. The sequel MARRIED BUT AVAILABLE has also been featured in several bestseller lists. He can be reached at abhijitbhaduri@live.com Visit his webpage at http://abhijitbhaduri.com/
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