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Zero Percentile is a book that is compelling and easy read. I finished the book in a sitting in a matter of few hours.

It is story of an Indian middle-class boy Pankaj (yeah, Pankaj) who thinks education as a means of improving the financial, and subsequently social status of his family. He has his plans clearly laid out: to be at IIT.

If you think this book is Chetan Bhagat’s What Not to Do at IIT, then you couldn’t be more wrong.

A twist in the tale finds Pankaj in Volgograd, Russia. Before leaving India, his father reminds him of an astrologer’s predictions (you know how seriously we Indians take them) who had predicted at his birth that he will travel abroad and will fall in love with a foreign woman.

Prediction does come true, but Pankaj is clueless about the outcome since the astrologer had failed to comment on it.

The book is set into three parts: India, Russia and finally the love story. My favourite is the second part that is set in Russia. The survival story of Pankaj tinged with bits of Russian (Russia that was U. S. S. R.) history and culture completely hooks a reader’s curiosity.

Read the complete review here at: http://alchemistpoonam.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/book-review-zero-percentile/… (más)