Synopsis
What will happen if an IIT graduate, with a foreign Master’s, a PhD from Michigan, a postdoctorate from MIT and Harvard, turns down an offer of a faculty position at Stanford University to come back home to India to join a reputable, new university called Federal Comprehensive University at Barakotla. Will he succeed or fail tremendously? “Professors Gone Wild” takes you on a wild journey to find an answer. Barakotla is a historic place, an ancient site of Indus Valley Civilization that existed in third millennium BC and was known for city planning and civil engineering. Satnam Singh Rugga’s passion for Barakotla’s history and commitment to make a difference do bring him back to India, but he soon realizes that he has ended up at not less than a stone age, where “might is right” is still in practice. The world had progressed in other part of the world but not in this campus. On one hand, he has a dream to make FCU a world class university befitting the technological history of the very place, the realities on the other hand is just the opposite. Satnam has to struggle for his own survival because of the tyrannous President of the university, Professor Nagrup. He takes on the morally corrupt University President, but has to first fight an enemy within - his remorse for coming back to India, the resulting depression, alcoholism, resulting hallucinations, and even worse, his memory of being some Raghav Paul who was born in the stone age and brought up in the twenty second century AD. To aid him are just the knowledge about the glorious past, dreams about the splendid future, teachings of his mentor Prof. Mayur Goyal and support of a new colleague Dr. Prembihari Sinha.
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Kaunds
Hilarious. I wish I could paste portions if what I found funny. The nicknames are giggle inducing. Dean of engg. Ha ha
koni
Manuscript needs a bit of editing to weed out the grammatical errors. I would love to read the edited version of the book as it is an interesting story. My best regards to the writer for the excellent plot and theme.
Shweta Sinha
The synopsis, the title and cover piqued my interest, however the execution needs improvement. The book started out slow with lots of descriptions in the passive voice, that made me lose some of my interest. It sounded like a science fiction at first, then began to appear like a comedy. The story slowly had me confused that I couldn't read beyond the middle of Chapter 2. Too many long sentences and dialogues.
Deepak Kaul
Interesting concept. Execution is good as well. It really picks up after a somewhat confusing, sluggish start in the first few pages.
sangeeta
Funny and nice idea.