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Chat with the author of Jack is Back

Last updated on: October 18, 2012 09:10 IST

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Join us for a chat with PG Bhaskar, author of Jack is Back in Corporate Carnival.

Author of the very popular Jack Patel's Dubai Dreams , PG Bhaskar is back with a new book, this time chronicling the life of his beloved protagonist.

In Jack is Back in Corporate Carnival Patel returns to private banking thanks to his former colleague who offers him a job with a conservative British bank in Dubai. Jack has no qualms about taking it up. Solidity and stability are just what he is looking for.

But changes are afoot at the bank. Power struggles within a complex and changing hierarchy ensures a series of problems for young Jack. And who would have thought that the Football World Cup would turn things topsy-turvy for the bank.

Jack escapes all of this madness as he flies from Dubai to Africa to Chennai, hopping from one hilarious situation to the next.

Read excerpt here

Click here to join us for a chat with author PG Bhaskar at 2pm on Friday October 19!

PG Bhaskar is a private banker. He left India for Dubai in 1992 and what with one thing and the other, stayed put, watching the city grow. He now lives there with his wife and teenage son.