Musings of a Corporate Voyeur

You must read this book.

Musings of a Corporate Voyeur, a new book to hit the stands written by Sriram Iyer (Alchemy Publishers) is a book I would highly recommend.

 

Sriram Iyer is a "working professional", "in service", like most of us. He has distilled his 25 years of experience of working in large corporates  across three countries, into a delightful book of eleven short stories. Though a work of fiction, anyone who has worked will relate to the situations and characters in the book – a finely etched sense of déjà vu pervaded with ironic humor permeates the entire book.  In penning the situations and the characters in the book, the author brings out the peculiarities and absurdities of work life with a cartoonist's eye for detail, a novelist's gift of understanding people, and the satirist's tool of exaggeration to bring out the absurdities inherent in life at work.

 

The stories in the book all revolve around situations in the office, challenges faced by its characters due to what could pass for routine expectations, including the demanding boss, powerful secretary, desirable co-worker, and the petty intrigues, jealousies and backbiting that could easily spin out of control in any office. The situations are a little exaggerated at times which helps bring out the irony even better, and the characters are people you will recognize from your own office. The humor is spiteful and the language strong at times, but it all serves to bring out the best and the worst in each character in the daily maelstrom of existence at work.

 

Sriram also happens to be a close friend of mine – I know him since my school days.  He has always been a keen observer of human nature, and possesses a delightful if irreverent sense of humor.

 

The book, priced at Rs. 195, is available at all leading bookstores, and online on Flipkart. Do visit and buy.