Serious men
by Manu Joseph · first published 2010
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"Low-caste Ayyan Mani lives in a Mubai tenement and works in an esteemed research institute as the assistant of top researcher Arvind Acharya. Forever spiteful toward his privileged superiors, Ayyan is deviously mischievous and pulls off a stunt that ends with his half-deaf (but otherwise ordinary) son being proclaimed in the local news as a boy genius. Meanwhile, Arvind is obsessed with proving his theory that extraterrestrial microbes are raining down on Earth from the upper atmosphere. While his theory is promising, an affair with a seductive astrobiologist threatens to cost him his life's
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If you're interested in this theme (adults using kids as promotional vehicles), I can recommend a sharp satire I'm reading at the moment: http://www.amazon.com/Serious-Men-Novel-Manu-Joseph/dp/03933... Blurb from that page: "... a subtly wicked satire of subterfuge and ambition that bounces between the Mumbai tenement where low-caste Ayyan Mani lives, and the esteemed…
on “14 Years Old Kuwaiti Achieves 800,000 Downloads for His iPhone App” ↗…by Sal Khan. Best fiction : Laughter in the Dark by Nabokov. ## Deep Work by Cal Newport ## The life changing magic of tidying up by Marie Kondo ## So good they can’t ignore you by Cal Newport ## Serious men by Manu Joseph ## Strangers on a train ## One world education by Sal Khan (Highly recommend it) There are several wonderful takeaways from the book which I will try to list : - The current model of…
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