Labyrinth

<I>Learn Tamil in Thirty Days</I></p><p><I>One Hundred and One ways of Getting Married</I></p><p><I>The Book of Indian Cookery</I></p><p>Who would submit bills of these titles against a grant meant for big fat jargon-filledbooks on Software Technology?</p><p>But then Vikram Gupta is no run of the mill Software Professional.</p><p>Fresh out of college highly qualified in great shape and intelligent he is employed by ACS the biggest name in the Indian Software World. He is the archetypical image of a young man with a glorious future ahead of him.</p><p>Yet he has his problems.</p><p>He loathes his job abhors everything about Chennai and hates the guts of his reporting boss. And more importantly he has the questionable gifts of eccentric logicirreverence for authority and a macabre sense of humour which more often than notplace him on sticky wicket.</p><p>As the year 2000 approaches accompanied by the dreaded Y2K bug ACS goes about its customary way of getting innumerable projects done dirt cheap by employing fresh graduates whom they can brow beat bully and exploit. However in Vikram Gupta they run against something they have never encountered before.</p><p>Within the spic and span corridors of the multinational firm Vikram discoversconspiracies that threaten to spell doom for the hordes of young people recruited bythe company. And he pits his eccentric wits against the cold-blooded deviousness ofentrepreneur-par-excellence S. Digambaram the EVP of ACS Chennai. Somehow alongthe line he also manages to fall in love. But can a sole youth even aided by cupidsucceed against a giant corporate?</p><p>What results is an uproarious rollercoaster ride encompassing the deepest secrets ofthe software world just before the turn of the century. The technological landscape ofthe software world is etched with numerous colourful characters from all walks of life.</p><p>A most refreshing sense of humour.</p><p><b>-Shyamala Narayan</b></p>