Monday, April 19, 2010

Banking on reality

Ravi Subramanian's Devil in Pinstripes outlines the politics, the power plays, and the manipulations in the banking world

You don't often see these many corporate-types at a typical book launch. Pretty much just one guy in the packed audience is wearing a t-shirt, and that one reads ‘Proud to be an IIMB alumnus'. And all around, you hear scattered gossip about how so-and-so, a common colleague, has been featured in the book…

That was the scene at Landmark during the launch of Devil in Pinstripes, Ravi Subramanian's second novel set in the cutthroat world of banking in India, following his popular debut novel If God was a banker (2007) (his second book, I bought the Monk's Ferrari (2007) was more of a how-to guide to corporate success, the “antithesis of Robin Sharma's book”).

Full report here Hindu 

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