Hundred Days Of Summer
The Second Book In The ‘Crossing Over’ Trilogy
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Crossing OverA Summary
Crossing Over is the story of three boarding school friends spanning thirty years and six cities. Rahul is a Bengali boy from a troubled home looking for identity and belonging. Ajay is the quintessential handsome Delhi boy aspiring to be a movie star. Sundar is trying to deliver to the expectations of his academically demanding family. Life after boarding school is not what the friends bargained for. A promising career brutally cut short. A costly indiscretion. A bitter rivalry where everything is not what is seems. A tale of ambition, success and failure on one hand and on the other a saga of love, loss and forgiveness. Above all a story of friendship. A riveting fast paced novel.
Hundred Days Of SummerA Summary
Five years have passed since the three friends had last connected. Rahul chucks up his cushy corporate job to join Sundar in a desi start-up. The stakes are high. They tie up with Mundu Baba, the face of Nationalism but things take a dangerous turn. Ajay has joined the corridors of power with lofty aspirations but quickly finds himself caught up in a quagmire of deceit and intrigue. Precious lives and his political career is at stake. It will take a miracle for Ajay to come out clean.
Kaushik Mitrathe author
Kaushik Mitra has been a Corporate Executive for the past 25 years. He has lived in Kolkata, Delhi, Gurgaon, Chennai, Dubai and Ho Chi Minh City and worked in several Companies including the Tata’s, GE, Reckitt Benckiser and PepsiCo. He is currently SVP and CFO of Suntory PepsiCo Joint Venture in Vietnam. Kaushik went to a Boarding school in the hills of Kurseong and is an alumni of St. Xavier’s college Kolkata, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and Indian Institute of Management Kolkata. He is married and lives with his wife Reetika and seventeen year old son Arjun in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Kaushik is a regular speaker at Economist Forums in Singapore and has been writing for the IMA in India for the past five years with over fifteen articles to his credit on topics ranging from Management, Leadership and Travelogues. Music and Travel are his other passions apart from writing. He is an amateur singer and guitarist. Over the years Kaushik has travelled to more than fifty cities across the Globe and hopes to double that.
Crossing Over is his first fiction Novel.
How The Book Happenedthe drive | the writing | the publishing
I have always had a thing for words. Although my career has been in Finance working with numbers, there is a romance about words that always gets me going. While I have been writing on topics ranging from travelogues to Leadership and Personal Development, it wasn’t until we moved to Vietnam in 2015 that I turned to writing Fiction. I quickly realized it was a daunting task putting together a ninety thousand plus word novel. It was 95% hard work and 5% inspiration. Several times along the way I was inflicted with self doubt and the fabled “writers block”. Fortunately, I stayed the course and it all worked out in the end. It took five months to write the book and another four months to find a Publisher willing to invest in a first time fiction novelist. I big thank you to Yogesh Sharma of Zen Publications, Mumbai for believing in me and making my dream come true. So after nine months of labour Crossing Over was born. I cannot thank my family, my wife Reetika and my Son Arjun enough for the understanding and support during these nine months. They were my staunchest supporters but also my stern critiques at the same time. Crossing over is a story of three Boarding school friends. On one hand it’s a story of ambition, success and failure and on the other a saga of Love, Loss and forgiveness. Above all it’s a story of friendship. So pick up a copy today and I am sure you will be swept into the lives of Rahul, Ajay and Sundar. Happy Reading!
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