About Amrith

Amrit N. Shetty is an IT professional working with a multinational company. He has worked with various IT companies including ones in Austin, Dublin and Edinburgh. Besides writing, Amrit enjoys reading and watching movies. This is his debut novel.He lives in Delhi with his wife. Read his blog at http://amritshetty.blogspot.com/

The following is an excerpt from the book. You should be able to find the book in an leading bookstore.

Rajni blew her hair away from her face.
My heart skipped a beat.
‘I love you!’ I blurted out.
Her cheeks turned a deep pink.
I could sense that her anger had completely disappeared.

Anup, a happy-go-lucky boy next door, finds himself a misfit in an IT company. On the bright side, he has great friends in office—Chetan, Subbu and Parag—to help him out of sticky situations. Also, in the same office is the love of his life, Rajni. But Rajni’s strict family and her paranoia of tongue-wagging colleagues play villain in their love story forcing him to be satisfied with clandestine meetings, secret phone conversations and emails. Just as Anup decides to turn over a new leaf, sinister happenings at work force him to take some life-changing decisions—to quit his job and pursue his long-cherished dream of becoming a writer; and also, to marry Rajni.

Salil Shetty has made the nation and the bunt community proud by becoming the first Indian to head this prestigious human rights body. Amnesty International, founded in London in 1961, has more than 2.2 million members and supporters in more than 150 countries. A brief bio of Salil Shetty is given below –

Salil Shetty joined the United Nations in October 2003 as Director of the Millennium Campaign after two decades as a recognized civil society leader. In the last three years, Mr. Shetty has played a pivotal role in building up the global advocacy campaign for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in over 50 countries. This powerful anti-poverty campaign is a unique global partnership of the UN with NGOs, trade unions, faith groups, local authorities and the media, calling for greater accountability from governments in the fight against hunger, disease and illiteracy.

Prior to joining the United Nations, Mr. Shetty was the Chief Executive of ActionAid – a leading international development NGO; here he worked initially in field programmes in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa and latterly in the fundraising and advocacy programmes in Europe and the U.S.A.

Mr. Shetty serves on the boards of The Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, and The Overseas Development Institute, London, and is a member of the Advisory Council of the American-Indian Foundation, New York. He also serves on the Global Leadership Council of the Technology Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California.

An Indian national, Mr. Shetty earned a distinction in a Masters of Science in Social Policy and Planning from the London School of Economics and has a Masters in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad.