Summary of Dork:The Incredible Adventures Of Robin 'einstein' Varghese
In April 2006 Robin 'Einstein' Varghese, a stupendously naive but
academically gifted young man (he was ranked 41st in his class), graduates from
one of India's best business schools with a Day-Zero job at the Mumbai office of
Dufresne Partners, a mediocre mid-market management consulting firm largely run
by complete morons.
Varghese finds that he fits into the culture remarkably well. Or does he?
Through a stunning series of blunders, mishaps and inadvertent errors, Robin
begins to make his superiors rue the day they were driven by desperation into
hiring him. With things going spectacularly wrong in his professional and
personal life, will Robin manage to achieve his short-term goal of being
promoted to Associate in under a year? Will love conquer all and will Gouri walk
with him through Dadar Department Stores with her hand in the rear pocket of his
jeans?
Dork: The Incredible Adventures of Robin 'Einstein' Varghese is for all of those
who've ever sat depressed in cubicles and wanted to kill themselves with office
stationery. Especially that letter opener thing.
Simply put,
Dork is a hilarious book.
More importantly,
the book fills a character gap in India . So far, Dilbert (the corporate
poster boy created by Scott Adams) remains the only person we have all looked up
to for office humour and cubicle jokes. On and off, we have even felt proud of
Asok from IIT, the only PIO in the Dilbert strips. But the largely American
office humour made quite a few strips less relevant to us.
Now, we have
Robin Varghese aka Einstein.
Robin is a cool guy and quite modest – he just believes he is the smartest guy
on the planet – that’s why Einstein! He passes out of B School and gets campus
placed at Dufresne Partners, a management consultant firm, in Mumbai. Therein
begins his office adventures.
Robin is focused on two goals – get promoted as Associate within 12 months on
the job and also get the girl of his dreams Gauri, his batchmate at B school.
Robin also has two challenges – his bosses don’t think Robin is smart enough to
make Associate and Gauri does not love him, since Robin once puked on her in
college among other things!
Through a series of errors and omissions, not to mention hilarious incidents and
funny accidents, Robin manages to put himself in the best position possible so
as not to meet any of his personal or official goals. Then things go wrong and
you the reader can have a real blast.
Sidin Vadukut is a journalist and blogger and this is
his debut novel – clearly he has a way with words – getting people to laugh
while reading is a hard act and Vadukut manages this quite well. Given that this
book is supposed to be the first of a trilogy, it will be interesting to see
how Vadukut meets reader expectations next time, now that they are set.
One word of caution: read
this book on a train or plane or in public at your own peril, you may start
laughing and other people watching you may think you are – mad or Einstein?
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