If God Went to B-School


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ANAND, VAIBHAV is a 2008 batch chemical engineer from Delhi College of Engineering and a 2010 batch MBA from FMS, Delhi. He is currently employed by Citibank. His interests lie in writing fiction And poetry. MANI GANESH, NARENDRA is a 2008 batch mechanical engineer from Delhi College of Engineering. He is currently employed by Siemens power. His interests lie in traveling.




A Year in Faking News


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This ebook is an anthology of all my articles published on the satirical portal Faking News ever since I started contributing in 2013. Since then I have gone on to write 200 plus satirical articles for the site – some of which actually came back as recommended reads to me through email forwards or Facebook shares (teaching me a valuable lesson of the power of the internet). I am compiling this mostly because elections are now over, the Congress (and Rahul Gandhi) is decimated – and so the amount of material to satirize out there is going to diminish significantly. I have tried to compile only the best and the most timeless of my work… so if you don’t like some of them, remember this ebook is free – as are all good things in life. So go ahead, use your travel time or office time or quality-time-with-family wisely. Kick back and enjoy as I take you back in time in the satirical multiverse; and remember none of this really happened…







Anything to Look Hot


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When the superstar diva of the past decade doesn’t want to play the hero’s mother on screen, she insists that she be reshaped into the most beautiful woman in the world…by any means. This is just one of the many odd situations which plastic surgeon Dr. Dhruv faces in Mumbai. He has dealt with tyrannical bosses and finicky patients while undergoing his training, during which he has also won over a stunning doctor as his life partner. But satisfying the movie stars is a different ball game, because every girl wishes to have bee-stung lips, and every guy wants to flaunt a six-pack abdomen without working too hard. And all this while, he has to resist losing his balance over his ravishing female clients. Dr. Dhruv’s journey surpasses even a masala movie for humour, drama and action. In debunking many a myth about cosmetic surgeries, the book will enthrall those who can do Anything to Look Hot.




The Great War of Hind


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“In the beginning, there was no such thing as heaven or hell. All that there was then, was earth… There are raconteurs and mischief-mongers in our ranks and I have no doubt they shall pervert the truth with their self-serving versions. The events of history – this history of our land – shall thus inevitably have many versions, doubtless. But, I was there with General Ramm, I fought by his side…” — Sanjaay, official chronicler of General Ramm Srishti Publishers & Distributors Around 12000 B.C., Hindustan as we know it today (or Hind), comprised five kingdoms of man, sandwiched between Parbat – the kingdom of the Gods in the north, and Lunka – the kingdom of the demons in the south. The ‘Legend of Ramm’ unravels the story of the military general called Ramm in the kingdom of Ayodh and how his actions came to define our world as we know it today.




What Your Banker Wont Tell You


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Making money is hard, they will tell you. Or that you need to buy X insurance or Y mutual funds or a 3BHK in Z place. Your banker, your money manager, even the avuncular neighbour who sells you LIC policies, will seem incredibly earnest as they give you what is actually self-serving money advice. Coming from someone who's spent years in banking, 'What your banker won't tell you' is a simple do-it-yourself guide for investing in India. Spanning investment instruments across real estate, mutual funds, equity investing, debt, gold, Vaibhav takes you through fundamental tenets and easy to follow steps to grow your money and keep your banker from taking some or almost all of it. Read this book before you let your banker or LIC uncle mis-sell you something again.




But for the Grace of God


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Morse tells his own story of struggles with drug addiction, failed relationships, and failed business ventures, struggles he was able to resolve only after turning to God.




Stumbled Upon Destiny


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Surprisingly, the modern-day arranged marriage institution is still in vogue. Girls and boys continue to give up their dreams for their parents’ happiness, yield to their family’s demands and end up snuffing all joy out of their lives. Some of these couples have the luck of the draw and a happy story to tell, finally. Others seek comfort in ‘compromise’. Yet others fall apart and eventually go their separate ways. Why do they part ways? Who is to blame? Vineet Hariharan and Meera Madhav, a couple trapped in a mismatched relationship, have decided to call it quits. The story begins with their relationship coming to an end. The story is narrated from both Vineet’s and Meera’s perspectives, with some scenes described from the point of view of both. Stumbled Upon Destiny is about their ‘loveless-marriage’ which gives rise to many issues - lack of communication, complacency, unresolved agruments...




The Homing Pigeons


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In the middle of the catastrophic 2008 recession, Aditya, a jobless, penniless man meets an attractive stranger in a bar. Little does he know that his life will change forever. When Radhika, a young, rich widow, marries off her stepdaughter, little does she know that the freedom she has yearned for is not exactly how she had envisioned it. They say homing pigeons always come back to their mate, no matter where you leave them on the face of this earth. The Homing Pigeons is the story of love between these two unsuspecting characters as it is of lust, greed, separations, prejudices and crumbling spines.




The Paperback Badshah


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‘In life...you can choose to become a specialist or a generalist. But in love, please don’t become a reluctant fundamentalist. Instead become a love scientist.’ — Raghu Balakrishnan Raghu Balakrishnan is a laidback 25 year old, who quits his regular job as a financial advisor to focus single-mindedly on his dream of becoming a published aurthor in India. He stays with his parents. They reluctantly tolerate his new-found creative ‘nonsense’ as he works on his book, a love story, which he titles The Paperback Badshah. As time passes by, he realizes that writing the book is just one part of the dream. How did one go about getting it published? What about the marketing and promotion? What about reactions from the readers? Would it open up the faucets of love in their hearts or would it irritate them, given the sheer absurdity of the plot? Along the way, will Raghu also get lucky in matters of the heart? Find out by joining him in his entertaining journey, as he chases his writing dream to eventually become a published ‘100 Rupee’ paperback author.