If GØd Wa$ a Bank€r
This week I got a free time, and read this book, “If GØd Wa$ a Bank€r“. Title of this book attracted me. Short description at back cover raised my expectations from book.
I was expecting book to give me some strategy into bankers life, their way of corporate. I was expecting story based on management concepts put into practice, and how money runs.
BUT,
The book covers story of 2 bankers, Sundeep and Swaminathan. Both management graduated from reputed institutes battle their way to position of power in same organization. Book gives detailed description of paths each followed. The decisions they took.
I was much more surprised, when some where to a very fag end of the book, author introduces himself.
Book portraits Sundeep a many with aggression, and in rush. Sundeep being ambitious, has taken all means to reach top of ladder. Exactly opposite is character of Swaminathan aka referred as Swami, all the time in book. Swami is shown to be a very calm and passionate about work. He never took a decision that breached compliance policies. In this hussle and tussle for power and to reach apex of organization, their paths often crossed. It was just how better one got other one out off competition.
Ravi has managed to describe scenes, very well. Scene of intimacy were described in-such a way, as if he was watching it happen and making note out of it. What all could come with power, position and wealth? Deceit, women, ambition, frustration, pressure, success and failures interfere in the lives of these two youngsters. Notwithstanding these, they surge forward to success and how they manage it is narrated by Ravi Subramanian lucidly.
Two young management graduates, with nothing similar in family backgrounds and temperament, join the New York International Bank on the same day and take two entirely different routes to success. Both rise up the ranks at breakneck speed: the fast and aggressive Sundeep, who would stoop to anything to get ahead, and the mature and sensible Swami, with a high regard for good old ethics. The racy narrative set in the high-pressure milieu of competitive banking carries the undercurrent of a clash of values, in the intermeshed realms of the personal and the professional. It’s a story peppered with ambition and frustration, deceit and malevolence, love and lust, and the desperate struggle for status and power. And, above all, there is a top-notch banker who plays the benevolent God whenever crisis looms over the young guns…
An insider’s fictionalised account of how Indian professionals experience the world of foreign banks, the story spans three continents.
He has also managed to keep surprise till very end. Book ends more like Hindi stories, happy ending.
Overall a good book to read, but title is totally misleading. A must read for every individual working in a corporate environment
If GØd Wa$ a Bank€r , by Ravi Subramanian , Rupa & Co. (pp260); R.195
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