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Cargando... Chennai To Chicago: Memoir of a software engineerpor Sriram Ramakrishnan
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Is there anything permanent at all? Anything that I can lean on to in this world? What is life? What am I doing here? Growing up in the '90s in India, hearing people going to "States" as software engineers, I wondered why people were so crazy about America. Without the internet or the zillion TV channels we have today, I had my own fantasies on "States". Thanks to a Doordarshan Tamil serial in the '90s, "Marriage in Washington", I remember as a teenager sitting in front of the television religiously every week with a yearning in my throat, "I should go to America someday". I didn't know how that would happen, I had not even traveled in an Air-Conditioned compartment on a train. But I knew, someday, I will go to America. And that someday arrived in the form of an admit in a US university with 100% scholarship and a monthly stipend. That began my wonderful "coming of age" experiences in the next 10 years of my life, with numerous travels, tribulations, and life-changing experiences. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The book is written almost throughout in first person (with a few exceptions) and thus remains true to the tagline. Those who are grown in a typical middle-class environment can link their lives to the many incidents mentioned in the book. These realistic exploration and deja-vu feelings make readers connect with the book strongly. That is the success of the author for sure.
The interesting time of the protagonist growing up in a middle-class, the way he was introduced to the metro-city and explore the college life there, and eventually, visits many foreign countries for the job perspective and explore the "way of living" there; is worth exploring through the author's pen.
The book takes quite a spiritual turn the mid-way, where the protagonist became self-inquisitive and wanted to know the reasons of his being. This works like a charm for some readers while it may found quite distracting from the main story for many others. So, we can consider it as the positive as well as negative point of the book.
I like the way the author has avoided any cuss words or adult-only material in this book, which even some of the well established and bestseller authors cannot do. The characters are really well defined and you got to see almost majority of them in the real life. The innocence of the small town boy and his attitude when he was the in-charge who is outsourcing the work to his home country; is something you shouldn't miss reading.
Here are some of the interesting lines from the book:
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An unenergetic teacher will put anyone to sleep.
“Hope” is the most beautiful thing, it’s the very core of human existence.
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Overall a genuinely written straightforward story which becomes a little heavier when the "journey to know the self" is started by the protagonist. Definitely worth reading.
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