Ajay's Restlessness

Set between 1998 and 2004 when the seeds of computer software, call center industry and modern entrepreneurship were seeded. Today the world witnesses its flowering. This is about revival of the entrepreneurial instincts of a people subjugated by foreign rule for 500 years inspiring Indians to look beyond jobs and venture out. Ajay the protagonist is a representative of “Age of Aspiration,” which he finds as a rat race and pulls away and his search for his meaning of life propels him to become a software entrepreneur. It is also a comment on the competitive middle class society of dog eats dog where ideals, morals and ethics are routinely sacrificed on the altar of becoming successful. What aspired them?Looking beyond tangibles,he sees it as a rat race without a moral compass and little ideals. If you win you still remain a rat. The novel traces the gradual maturing of the protagonist.