Horn OK Please - HOPping to Conclusions - Softcover

Kartik Iyengar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615460550 ISBN 13: 9780615460550

Publisher: Kartik Iyengar, 2011

Synopsis

Horn OK Please (HOP) depicts India from the perspective of an unusual individual, one who is a successful executive in the Indian corporate sector. The book is targeted toward the educated urban class, young working professionals, NRIs, and anyone who wants to know what the outlook and life of the urban working professional is in India today. It offers hope, portraying a movement beyond the mere struggle for existence, a freedom from the mundane and an aspiration for a better society underlined with a passion for driving coupled with a lust for life. It delves into the joys of crass commercialism, a dream of long drives lived through the book and culminating in a positive view of India as a nation that will be an eye-opener for the world. Although not a travelogue in the true sense, the book illustrates a journey of sorts with a large part of the book actually written on a road trip while also including reflections from various stages of Kartik's life. Every chapter begins with a sarcastic poetic snippet, goes on to set the context, present his points of view and culminates in a warped moralistic end from a virtual community. Through the book Kartik uses techniques like feigned ignorance, unacceptable slang (mostly understood only by a handful of social media geeks) to ask rudimentary, thought provoking and sometimes merely provoking questions. The hopefulness is, however evident in every kilometer of the book which looks at the goodness and prosperity that is clearly visible across a booming India. The second book is already in progress and is titled "Horn OK Please The SCROTUM Scrolls".The narratives range from his experiences in adventure sports to incidents involving hospital visits. There are many accounts from foreigners who have traveled across the country. In contrast there is an account of someone who portrays himself as a moron with a low IQ, also addressing readers in the same vein while taking them on a journey that shows them his perspective of the country, eloquently disproving moronic notions along the way. This book will shatter the illusion of docile corporate workers in a nation that is considered to be humorless, self-effacing and living in its past glory.

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About the Author

Kartik Iyengar, in addition to being a successful corporate professional (he currently works at a large French multinational firm in India) dabbles in a multitude of areas. He is an avid blogger, a self-proclaimed moron, an unlucky Las Vegas loser, a compulsive road-hog, a Red Bull addict and an adrenaline junkie who has tried everything from scuba diving to bungee jumping. In the middle of all this, he has taken time to listen to the calling and written Horn OK Please HOPping to Conclusions, the first in the frivology. Unlike most other first-time authors, Kartik has not given up everything else to write; instead he has made writing a part of all that he does. A cockroach-loving heavy metal maniac, Kartik has thousands of hyper-active fans on his Facebook fanpage page, who live his journeys vicariously, have been astonished by and encouraged him on his literal and figurative writing journey. His bunch of groupies, oops.....his fans who call themselves HOPpers (many of whom have actually changed their middle name to include Hopper as a mark of belonging to this social-media cult.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kartik Iyengar
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0615460550
• ISBN 13: 9780615460550
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Kartik Iyengar
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 267
• Editor: Kartik Iyengar