HOW DINKAR LOST HIS JOB AND FOUND A LIFE

<p>DeScriPtion</p><p>Twenty-nine-year-old Dinkar Sharma is a software engineer in Noida. Or</p><p>was till he was unceremoniously dropped by his company. Lying around in</p><p>his rented room with nothing to do it occurs to him how his heart had never</p><p>been in it. In fact for the first time he realizes just how unhappy he has been.</p><p>What makes it worse is that after this brief holiday of sorts he must get back</p><p>to a new life-exactly like the one he had.</p><p>Cheer seems to return to his life with Kirti a girl he meets at a laughter</p><p>'club' when he decides to go for a walk one morning to take his mind off</p><p>his miserable life if nothing else. Kirti's arrival makes even his nosy landlady</p><p>bearable. But the euphoria is short-lived and he's off to Amritsar for he can't</p><p>afford to live in Noida without a regular pay check. The change of air doesn't</p><p>last though-his mother worried about his lack of motivation to look for new</p><p>jobs is convinced he must get married to become more responsible; his father</p><p>has little say and his friends can offer little help beyond their drink-and-drive</p><p>sessions. Unemployed with no plans for the future and feeling trapped in</p><p>the only place he can call home Dinkar knows he must stand up for himself</p><p>but he isn't sure he can-all his life's important decisions have only ever been</p><p>made by someone else. Will the drifter come ashore; will the adolescent grow</p><p>up?</p><p>Playful endearing and often laugh-out-loud funny this is a coming-of-age</p><p>story of a not-so-young Indian boy-one among millions-trying to find a</p><p>life.</p>