The Bachelor of Infopark: A Novel

Same city. Different dreams. Vinod Menon is thirty-seven, a B.Tech graduate with nine years behind a keyboard at a two-room web-design firm above a mobile recharge shop in Kochi - and, according to every matrimony biodata his mother has printed, catastrophically underpaid for it. While his college batchmates post villa photographs from Dubai and his mother circles new profiles every Sunday, Vinod is offered the one thing that could finally make his biodata read the way she has always wanted it to: a job in Doha, at three times his salary, tax-free. The only complication is Meera - a schoolteacher with eleven rejected proposals of her own, a directness he has never quite encountered in a Coffee House before, and absolutely no interest in being anyone's consolation prize. A warm, wry, unmistakably Kerala story about what a life is actually worth, once you stop pricing it by someone else's biodata.