Dr. Roy's Web Wisdom: Luther to Mubarak - Social Media in Politics

Dr. Roy's Web Wisdom: Luther to Mubarak - Social Media in Politics: Some Social Media aided revolutions have been successful, some have failed. However, can we reach conclusions yet? Dr. Suprakash Roy has some interesting summing up to do even as Simon van der Wiel and Shruti Rattan argue the pros and cons.

Blog of Simple Simon: Corporate Family Value System

Blog of Simple Simon: Corporate Family Value System: Managerial mail, Bollywood Parallels and Freudian Analogies help Simon analyse the boundaries between social and financial norms of the 'Company Family'

Blog of Simple Simon: A Statistician Explains Escalations and Best Pract...

Blog of Simple Simon: A Statistician Explains Escalations and Best Practices.:
By sheer law of probabilistic chance, 1 of 10000 imbecile CEOS who take a stupid gamble will come out winners. And then they will be worshipped as world leading Innovators, as superstar CEOs ... There will be books analysing their backgrounds, parentage, links to holocaust, seven habits, movement of cheese and how to take decisions straight from different parts of their anatomy

Blog of Simple Simon: Blow (Up) Job

Blog of Simple Simon: Blow (Up) Job:

Simon van der Wiel finds symbolic depiction of Corpocracy in Michelangelo Antonioni's classic 60s movie Blow Up.

Parallel Universe of Corpocracy

"Concocted philosophy in form of brand values, laboured poetry in the garb of elaborate euphemisms, pseudo science in the guise of innovations, petty politics in the cloak of relentless back biting, ersatz society under the mask of people living virtually in each other’s homes long after office hours, frequent musical soirees with the inbuilt sham of philanthropy through small change associations with NGOs masquerading as an apology of culture – all these have their utility." - Simon van der Wiel about the parallel universe of corpocracy.

Book Cover Updated

The back cover of The Best Seller has been updated with excerpts from the ForeWord Clarion Review. It is once again available on Amazon.

Order Update

The cover of the book is being updated following the ForeWord Clarion Review. So for a few days, the sales of the book through Amazon is kept on hold.

Dr. Roy's Web Wisdom: Of Rats and Men in the Cyber World

Dr. Roy's Web Wisdom: Of Rats and Men in the Cyber World: "There have been a few requests of elaboration of the phenomena I called the ‘roulette of red notifications’ in my last post when talking abo..."

FaceBook addiction is more like the lure of gambling than the fumes of cannabis - argues Dr. Suprakash Roy

Dr. Roy's Web Wisdom: Net Effect - Politics 2.0

Dr. Roy's Web Wisdom: Net Effect - Politics 2.0: "“The tweet is mightier than the blast,” may be the modern day sequel to analogous sentiments about the pen and the sword and the ballot and ..." In Dr. Suprakash Roy's opinion, Political Consciousness on the Net may be virtual.

Revisiting Best Seller and Amsterdam: Suprakash Roy's haunts

Here are some of the select locations where Dr. Suprakash Roy preferred to hold his psychoanalytic consultation sessions with friends.
"Amsterdam with all its attractions is a terribly interesting place for a psychiatrist," he justified his choice of locations by saying that he liked to see the raw human emotions - while he confessed - "I am a student of the human mind, who has his organ in the right place."

Revisiting Best Seller and Amsterdam - Amsterdammerje

The Amsterdammerje - little Amsterdammers - the cute little metal posts to prevent illegal parking. On one of these beside a canal, Shruti sat and listened as Sandeep talked of his many professions during what turned out to be their first date.

Foreword Clarion Book Review Now Available Online

The review of The Best Seller  is now available on the website of ForeWord Reviews.
Click on the link to read the full review.

Rating: Five Stars (out of Five) 
Exceprts:


The bons mots fly thick and fast through the pages of this contemporary novel, which pokes loving fun at corporate culture, techno-gadgets in daily life, romance, traditional Indian customs, geekdom, and a handful of other themes. The wonder of it all is that Sengupta keeps all the threads interwoven in a densely attractive word tapestry which is also very, very funny. Logophiles will be snickering at all the literary in-jokes as well as the pop-culture references.
.. Sengupta has delivered a finely tempered blade of a book that takes artful slices at several pretentious elements of modern life. In its scope and length, it’s reminiscent of Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, another excellent novel. The Best Seller deserves the attention to match its title.

Listed among the Best Selling US books - at least in this site

The Best Seller was listed on http://www.squidoo.com/bestsellingbooktitles  as on 7.1.2011



Foreword Clarion Review

Foreword Clarion Review has rated The Best Seller 5 stars out of 5 !!

The review will be available on the Foreword Magazine website and archived with Baker & Taylor's Title Source III, Bowker’s BooksInPrint.com, Ingram's iPage, and Gale’s licensed databases soon.

A preview of the review :-):


The bons mots fly thick and fast through the pages of this contemporary novel, which pokes loving fun at corporate culture, techno-gadgets in daily life, romance, traditional Indian customs, geekdom, and a handful of other themes. The wonder of it all is that Sengupta keeps all the threads interwoven in a densely attractive word tapestry which is also very, very funny. Logophiles will be snickering at all the literary in-jokes as well as the pop-culture references.

At 681 pages, The Best Seller is certainly a hefty tome, but the book’s size should in no way intimidate the interested reader. Sengupta has delivered a finely tempered blade of a book that takes artful  slices at several pretentious elements of modern life. In its scope and length, it’s reminiscent of Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, another excellent novel. The Best Seller deserves the attention to match its title.

Blog of Simple Simon: Ritual Dance of Meetings

Blog of Simple Simon: Ritual Dance of Meetings: "Dr. Suprakash Roy was leaning in his familiar languid way, the perpetual patience tinged with a hint of amusement on his face."

Simon van der Wiel discusses meetings with Dr. Suprakash Roy and discovers primal roots