A Wednesday
October 31, 2008
Jan 1st 2008: Bomb blasts in Rampur
May 13th, 2008: Bomb blasts in Jaipur
July 25th 2008: Bomb blasts in Bangalore
July 26th 2008: Bomb blasts in Ahmedabad
Sep 13th 2008: Bomb blasts in Delhi
Sep 27th 2008: Bomb blasts in Delhi
Sep 29th 2008: Bomb blasts in Malegaon
October 30th 2008: Bomb blasts in Guwahati
Married But Available Launch Photos
October 30, 2008
To decide who would release the first copy of the book, we asked the audience to write their names on a piece of paper and drop it in a box. Karthika picked a name from the lot. that turned out to be Senthil Kumar who I share my alma mater with (just that he got way better grades than me always at XLRI – School of Business and Human Resources).
In the photo above : (Senthil Kumar releases the novel. Karthika – the editor looks on)
The launch of a book is the closest experience to childbirth. The editor will keep doing the checkups and fine tune the diet to ensure a healthy kiddo. But the date of the launch is always unpredictable. Once the book goes in for editing, the editor takes over your life.
No good deed is ever left unpunished. The editor then gets to experience the same sense of helplessness when she jands over the edited manuscript to the Production Unit who will then design the pages and the cover and get the book printed.
Then you do a launch event. So what IS supposed to happen during a launch event? It could be anything. The trick is to put up some kind of a circus that encourages the spectators to finally loosen their purse strings and buy the book. Hence a lot of authors (yours truly included) read excerpts from the book. That gives the audience a flavor of the story and the writing style. I had recorded some excerpts that I had recorded with the extremely talented Madhu Rajesh (who runs the blog of Fritolay India and is part of their HR team).
“Why don’t you read a dramatized version of some chapters?”, suggested Lushin Dubey – the ever so experienced stage actor.
That’s finally what we agreed to do. Lushin did a marvellous job of changing her voice and diction and pace to create her own version of characters. Was she good!!
These photos of the launch party are all courtesy R Rajesh who is a very innovative shutterbug. My mugshot in the backpage of the novel which are also being used on the novel’s announcement posters for bookshops, is courtesy Rajesh. Check out his photos at http://www.pbase.com/r_rajesh1801/
The Asian Age Book Review: Married But Available
October 24, 2008
The first review of the book is always awaited with much nervousness. Here is the first review of Married But Available as it appears in the Asian Age newspaper. I half expected Pramita Bose to do the review since she has covered stories on Mediocre But Arrogant and also did one of the early warning stories of the second 
My book’s review was by Pooja Sharma and here it is from the web edition of The Asian Age of 25 Oct 2008 Read more
Show and Tale
October 18, 2008
Do books that tell a great story also make great films? Are these two different forms where the twain shall not meet? While I can instantly think of films like Ben-Hur, Frankenstein, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest or for that matter most of the films made by Satyajit Ray who always chose great stories and turned them into visual delights on celluloid. One can also think of great books that turned into horrible films.
Marriage that is HR
October 12, 2008
The Telegraph, of Calcutta, in their edition dated Sunday , October 12 , 2008 writes about the event at CROSSWORD bookstore at Elgin Road, Kolkata in the section called Book Bazar. They call it
Marriage that is HR
“Married but Available, that’s a book, written by Abhijit Bhaduri, an HR employee with Microsoft. No, the book is not about promiscuity. It deals with HR management. Bhaduri, in fact, has a thing for titles. His first book, of which this is a sequel, was called Mediocre but Arrogant.
An intriguing title draws readers. The book launch at Crossword on September 29 had event manager Sujoy Prasad Chatterjee conversing with the author. For someone who works backstage arranging such book launches, it was novel to have Chatterjee taking centrestage, exchanging notes with the author on studying “Eco honours” and following it up with management degree, which both the HR manager and the event manager seemed to have done.”
The Hindu newspaper had already announced the book on 6th Oct 2008 in their piece titled
Made in heaven, available now
| “Married But Available”, the sequel to “Mediocre But Arrogant”, is on the shelves |
HarperCollins India and Crossword hosted the launch of “Married But Available” by Abhijit Bhaduri at the capital, 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. Read more
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