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There is a wide variety of fiction writing emerging from India, but he felt that there weren’t enough books of the sort that he would like to read. Those that revolved around our daily lives and narrated in a manner that reflected the urban corporate lifestyles that so many of us lead, says Gurgaon-based author Upendra Namburi. The author who recently released his debut novel 31 states, “My book is a reflection and perspective of corporate life in India today.”
The book is a corporate thriller that covers 31 days in the life of Ravi, a regional head with Imperial Bank. “There is this archaic notion of banking being ‘boring’. To the contrary, retail banking is now one of the more challenging and dynamic businesses, the world over,” says Namburi. “Corporate life is just not about packaging and marketing. It’s also about people and situation management. I would like to think that 31 would make readers reflect and think about what’s about happening at work and how they would manage situations,” he adds, laying emphasis on the fact that the format of the book is largely fiction, but the challenges that have been dealt with are of the real world.
He has tried to simplify the many banking terminologies in the book as much as he could, Namburi explains, but at the same time, he has also tried to offer readers a better understanding and some insight into the retail banking industry. “The challenges and situations faced in banking are not very different from those in other industries, and that’s the essence I have tried to capture in writing 31,” he explains.
Namburi has attempted a unique writing style with his book. There is one chapter for each day in the month of March, and the book leads to March 31 — the end of the financial year. As one would imagine, a day that has much significance in the banking and financial sector. “It just reflects the reality of contemporary urban lifestyles and how numbers are interwoven into every aspect of our lives. Time, timelines, deadlines, flights, trains, meetings, business plans, schedules, the stock market, the grocery budget…the list goes on,” Namburi reveals his explicit fascination for numbers. “Numbers and time are all around us. The clock is always ticking. We all lead thrilling lives! The trick lies in surviving through them.”
His book 31 is the first in the ‘Numbers Triumvirate’ as Namburi likes to refer to it. “It’s not a trilogy. The next two books are titled 60 and 8. Each of the books touches upon aspects of modern urban life spanning passions, obsessions and even mania in some instances,” says Namburi. “60 should be out next year.”
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