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Mediocre But Arrogant - India Launch

The Indian price for the book is Rs 195/-

The India launch starts off with Kolkata. 3rd August 2005
at 6:30pm
at the Oxford Bookstore at 17, Park Street, Kolkata 700 016, India
http://www.oxfordbookstore.com/
Contact Ms Maina Bhagat at mbhagat@apeejaygroup.com for an invitation if you are the formal type. Else just walk in and join the launch party.


Will be in XLRI, Jamshedpur on 4th August for a day to visit the campus.

This is followed by the launch in Mumbai
9th August at 5:30 pm at Oxford Bookstore at Apeejay House, Dinshaw Vacha Marg, Mumbai

The launch in New Delhi is on
11th August 2005 at 6:00pm at India International Centre
Address - Annexe: Hall No 3, 40 Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi - 110003, India
Mr Gurcharan Das will release the book

In Bangalore the book is being sold at
Crossword, Vinayaka Book Distributors Gangaram, Strand Bookstall, Shankars The Bookshop etc.

Hope to meet all of you during the launches.

If the book has not reached your favourite bookstore then raise the alert with Mr Gagan Das at gagan@indialog.co.in or on his cell 098108-07342.

Buy a signed copy of the book
In US the hardcover international edition is available for US$21.95 (plus $3.00 shipping). Send me an email at abhijitbhaduri@gmail.com
Make cheque payable to PERFECT CONSULTANTS LLC

Chapter 11 - Abbey's Roomie Pappu

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Here is some early praise for Mediocre But Arrogant
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"Took me straight back to my college days!!" — Shobhaa De


“Mediocre But Arrogant is a heady and delightful blend of so many flavours; it is funny, sad, touching, romantic, reflective ... One gets spontaneously seduced into living through Abbey's life — with all its exuberance, paradoxes and pains. M-B-A is not just about life in a B-School; it is about the process of growing up into an adult...” — Dr Madhukar Shukla, Professor (OB & Strategic Management) — XLRI, Jamshedpur

“...a witty and insightful depiction of the two years in a business school student's life. Using Abbey's classnotes as illustrations is a unique idea.” — Tarun Sheth, management guru

"This may be the Indian answer to Peter Robinson's cult book on MBAs Snapshots from Hell" — Gautam Ghosh

Coming soon to a bookstore near you

The Book Cover That Got Dumped

Priya's Poem "BUTTERFLIES" - Dedicated to Abbey

The MIJ Song

This is the MIJ song that Abbey started to write. Help him complete the lyrics.
If you can add chords and put it to music, even better...

The MIJ Song

Chorus:

The two years I spent in MIJ
Studying for my MBA
Precious hours spent with friends
Drinking the night away

Those term papers we’d to write
Every Professor had a strange quirk
It took Rascal Rusty to figure out
For each Prof what would work
Someone liked quotes, some liked to see graphs
Some liked humour in Assignments just for laughs

The two years I spent in MIJ
Studying for my MBA
Precious hours spent with friends
Drinking the night away

Dadu’s dhaba was our usual haunt
Whether for chai or cigarettes that we’d want
Where Arunesh sang Dylan's songs
With the shiny black guitar he would flaunt...

Abbey's Classnotes on Organizational Behaviour

Abbey's Classnotes on Strategic Planning

Prof Naresh Parihar - "Pari" for short. Taught us Strategic Planning

Abbey's Class notes on Microeconomics

Basanto debates which piece would be smaller

Basanto spends time looking for the SMALLEST pieces

Ayesha's pretty eyes

Pages from Abbey's class notes

Haathi with a pillion rider

Mediocre But Arrogant - the storyline

Mediocre But Arrogant - a story of love and life in a Business School is the debut novel of Abhijit Bhaduri. Set against the backdrop of a fictitious business school in the steel city of Jamshedpur, India, this is a story of how the two years of doing an MBA transforms Abbey's life, perspective and relationships. Anyone who has lived in a school or college hostel will be able to identify with the characters of this funny but insightful novel.

Abbey - the narrator and protagonist is in MIJ - the coveted Management Institute of Jamshedpur, as an act of "serendipity". That is where he meets several classmates in the Boys Hostel - Harpal Singh alias Hairy, David Chummanoor - Chumma for short, Arunesh Nanda - the guitarist who sings Dylan songs and the mysterious, enigmatic Rascal Rusty. And then there are girls ... Ayesha for one.

There is Dadu's Dhaba, Basanto, the Mess Bearer who doles out pieces of chicken to the select few as if it was a state secret. Ganauri - the dhobi who comes to pick up the laundry on his moped.

Will Abbey find the love of his life? In a Darwinian microcosm of the corporate world, MIJ has taught Abbey to hone his survival instincts and shave off jagged edges of his character. Is this what he wants to be?

Summer of '82