Tuesday 22 September 2015

Review:- We're Corporates by Sudarsan Nagarajan.

To get the meaning of the word "Corporate", I took a dip in the dictionary. Stating from the dictionary, Corporate means of or relating to a corporation.
Whenever we learn or hear about corporate, we get a big corporation or a big company in our mind where many people might be working, bosses, managers, 10-6 office and many things like that.
Corporate world just does end here. It has many things which we can never think about or even imagine of(only if a person has never worked or has been associated with a company).

About the story:-
The novel "We're Corporates" is a simple story about the struggle of three people of the corporate world who are either thrown and dumped out of the company or they themselves resign from their job. Ajay is a young father of a girl child. He resigns from his post for he feels that there is much more than the corporate life. Even after a lot of persuation from his boss, he remains firm with his decision. He calls his wife, Krithika to give her the news of his resignation. As soon as she hears it, its as if all her treasures have been taken away from her. She starts crying and continously persuades her husband to take up another job as she fears of the loan they had taken and about the young girl she had just given birth but Ajay firm with his decision tries to make her understand but fails to do. He informs her about his future plans of writing various exams and taking up other jobs after passing the exam.

On the other hand, Meghna, a young girl in her early 20's is working in a software company. She is very good in her works and does her work in time. But this has lead to more pressures on her. The manager starts giving her maximum works due to which she spends her maximum time in her office and if she completes her assignment on time and decides to leave for home, she is again burdened with some more works. Its a regular office day and she is working in her office when her manager calls her in the meeting room. Unaware of his intentions, she goes on to meet the manager and the boss. But unfortunately she doesn't find her boss there. The manager on the other hand tries to touch her in a bad manner and take advantage of her. She runs away from there saving herself from his bad intentions. Frustrated from her corporate life, she doesn't go to her office for a week after which she is expelled from the company. She is happy about this but her parents are not. They ask her to take a new job but she declines their thought. At last with no choice, she is given 2 options either to marry or take up a new job.

The third main protagnist is Suraj, a hard working, passionate and confident software engineer. He works very hard which fetches him many recognition and rewards. He even goes to U.K. for a project where he stays for 6 months. But during the recession period, he is first who is thrown out by the company followed by many others. He loses his morale and is not able to cope up with the situation. He is so much disturbed by the action of the company that he does join any other company as he fears from another expulsion. His parents are too worried about his actions and fears of his future. Due to financial crisis, his father takes up a job. Suraj is very much hurt by this. He decides to do something but nothing comes his mind. On the beach, he meets a young boy. Talking to him for few minutes gives him a new energy to work with his passion.

Will Ajay be able to pass his examinations and get a good job?
Will he be able to get rid of all the loans and make her wife proud of him?
What will Meghna choose- Job in another corporate house or to marry as per the wishes of her family?
What will happen when Meghna and Suraj will meet?
How will they rise from nowhere to owner of a leading company?
What happens at the beach when both of them meet accidently?
What happens when the loan for the new company is not sanctioned by any bank ?
How will Ajay help both the bestfriends in achieving their dreams?
There are many more things that shall enfold in the story and will amaze you at certain times.
I appreciate the author's efforts in bringing out the various atrocities that occurs and happens in the corporate world. But the thing which I didn't like were the grammatical mistakes and the no. of characters other than the protagnists. The no. of subordinate characters are too much which creates a lot of confusion. I would like to recommend the author that he must always take care of the grammatical mistakes as it takes away the beauty of the novel. Overall it is a good story with many things to learn such as
1. Never give up
2. We dont know what is coming in our way
3. Live your passion
and many more.
I would like to thank the author Sudarsan Nagarajan and Author Paradise for the review copy.

Story:-4/5
Characters:-3/5
Writeup:-3/5
Overall:-3/5

2 comments:

  1. Thank you Rajeev Pundir ji.
    You words keeps me encouraging to do my work more passionately and nicely.😊

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