FAQ about Experiment to Escape the Poverty

Q: Why have you chosen this title?

Satyendra: Well. To be honest, I was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography - Experiment with truth. Though my book is not an autobiography however it is inspired by the life I have lived and seen others around me living. It is a story about any middle class Indian family. Whatever they do is to avoid poverty in their life. They want to earn more money. While doing this, they experiment in different ways. Some succeed, most of them fail. This is what my book covers, so I decided to give title "Experiment to Escape Poverty"

Q:  After Chetan Bhagat, there is a surge in the IITians to write books. Is this another book on IIT?
Satyendra: Laughs. You are right that there are many IITians or MBAs who have already written books about the campus life. Be it IITs or IIMs. But my book is not about IIT or any other campus. I cannot deny that there are some pages where my character, Sumit, is in IIT but that are only less than 40 pages out of 230 pages. However when he is in IIT campus, the book talk about him rather than his campus. You can change the campus from engineering to medical to any university campus, story would remain the same. This book is definitely not about the IIT or engineering colleges.

Q: Tell us something about the book?
Satyendra: The book is about Sumit and his father, Ramesh. The book starts with Ramesh. He has done many experiments to escape the poverty he was born in. Lack of parents support, early marriage and then family did not allow him to realize his dreams. He wants his son to go further and achieve more in life than what he had achieved. Sumit gets all the freedom and resources he could and set on the path to become engineer because this was the only thing, he was sure, that will give him a job. He was an average student in his school but with ambitions and expectations. In the coming years, he gets success. Good education, job, high salary. Everything that one expect from a successful career. But he is restless. He wanted to live where he was but with a better life. This success that he achieved with hard work has uprooted him. He is still the same guy of small town but expectations has changed. In the vicious cycle of achieving more and becoming better than peers, he is alone and broken. He is following the route that everyone does.
It is for the audience of the book to decide if this was the right path he choose or he could have done things differently.