HEAT AND DUST

It was perhaps a sunny day. Very bright, I should say. It should be, as the Sun itself was on his rare visits to earth. Mr. Narayana Murthy, NRN as he is lovingly called, was addressing our batch of trainees at the sprawling campus of Mysore. He was sharing how he started Infosys .What led to it. His earlier job at Patni, why he left. Like others, I was sitting on the grass and was mesmerized by his simple yet enigmatic words. That very voice which echoes at the depth of your heart.
Years later those words again haunted me on mundane days in London. Sitting at the bank of Thames and munching some cheap noodles, something inside urged to pen down a story of our lives, ordinary yet not so ordinary. And thus the novel idea was born.


Welcome to the IT world. Heat and Dust depicts a complicated love story between two software professionals in the backdrop of the evolution of the Indian IT industry.

Saptak Dutta, A middle class Bengali boy working with an Indian IT company comes to London for his first onsite assignment. He is accompanied by Surajit Ghosh, his Project Lead. A new and an unknown country throw variety of challenges to them. The harsh climate, cultural difference and above all the different working mentality. As Saptak was struggling to fit himself to the new environment, his love interest Priyanka who was also a Software engineer is busy with her Mainframe work in Scranton.