Touching Distance: The Great Indian MBA Dream

Set against the backdrop of one of India's finest Business schools, the book is about Shiva's journey, who becomes frustrated with idea of wasting his potential at his cloistered software programming job and chooses to believe, like millions of other Indians, in the ubiquitous and superbly marketed Indian MBA dream. Shiva tells the story with two voices: one intimately participative, and another subtly distant, observing that everyone moves to a symphony that convinces them they are within 'touching distance' of their promised reality. Busting some MBA myths, while reinforcing others, he emphasises the truth that various paths lead to fulfillment, irrespective of the preeminence of some. The reader sees that the richness of the human experience, however, remains incandescent in the hypnosis of the dream.