{"id":1962,"date":"2008-09-10T19:50:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2020-11-15T14:40:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T09:10:20","slug":"keep-off-the-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2008\/09\/10\/keep-off-the-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep off the Grass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Karan Bajaj<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Karan Bajaj&#8217;s debut novel reminds me a lot of Chetan Bhagat&#8217;s first work, perhaps because of the similarity in milieu- IIT and IIM. Karan Bajaj is an IIM alumnus, and so this does seem a bit autobiographical. Well, even if its not, its definitely introspective, and is at its root, a person&#8217;s search for himself.<br \/>\nSamrat Ratan is the protagonist, who takes a break from his hotshot investment banking life on Wall Street, and gets into IIM-Bangalore. Its an interesting book, if not spectacular, and is definitely worth a read, if only for the analytic construction of the final lesson &#8216; happiness is about being comfortable in your own skin&#8230;. living a life of your own, and not an imitation of someone else&#8217;s reality&#8217;<br \/>\nOf course, even that is only a perspective, but it happens to be one I agree with \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<iframe data-src=\"http:\/\/www.flipkart.com\/affiliateiframe.php?bc=FFFFFF&#038;tc=000000&#038;lc=0000FF&#038;buy=yes&#038;isbn=8172237561&#038;affid=INmanublo&#038;type=3&#038;border=yes\"   style=\"width:120px;height:260px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karan Bajaj Karan Bajaj&#8217;s debut novel reminds me a lot of Chetan Bhagat&#8217;s first work, perhaps because of the similarity in milieu- IIT and IIM. Karan Bajaj is an IIM alumnus, and so this does seem a bit autobiographical. Well, even if its not, its definitely introspective, and is at its root, a person&#8217;s search <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2008\/09\/10\/keep-off-the-grass\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,6007],"tags":[882,883],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fiction","tag-karan-bajaj","tag-keep-off-the-grass"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14731,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions\/14731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}