Keep Off The Grass - Softcover

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU ARE A TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD YALE GRADUATE MAKING HALF-A-MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR AS A HOTSHOT INVESTMENT BANKER ON WALL STREET? YOU BUST YOUR ASS AND BECOME A MILLIONAIRE BY THIRTY, OF COURSE. NOT IF YOU ARE SAMRAT RATAN, BORN IN THE USA TO IMMIGRANT INDIAN PARENTS; YOU QUIT AND ENROL IN BUSINESS SCHOOL IN INDIA INSTEAD. SAMRAT S ROLLERCOASTER JOURNEY BEGINS AT THE INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT (IIM) IN BANGALORE, WHERE HE SPENDS HIS TIME GETTING HIGH ON MARIJUANA WHILE HIS GRADES - AND SELF-CONFIDENCE - PLUMMET. SOON, SAMRAT S QUEST FOR IDENTITY TURNS INCREASINGLY BIZARRE AS IT TAKES HIM PLACES HE HADN T PLANNED ON VISITING - PRISON, FOR EXAMPLE - AND MAKES HIM DO THINGS HE HADN T BANKED ON DOING: MEDITATING STONED WITH A SEXY DANISH HIPPIE IN THE HIMALAYAS, HANGING OUT WITH A CANNIBAL ON THE BANKS OF THE GANGA, AND PEDDLING SOAP TO THE FORMIDABLE RAJA BHAIYA IN BENARES. DOES SAMRAT - YALE VALEDICTORIAN, INVESTMENT BANKER, CONVICT, POTHEAD - SURVIVE HIS FALL FROM GRACE