May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss (English)

An offshoot of the famous blog, Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind by award-winning blogger Arnab Ray, May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss rakes up several random topics that a young Indian can invariably identify with. A non-fictional satirical piece of work, the book contains the writerƒ??s personal opinion on a range of subjects like Indian politics, moral policing, mushrooming business schools, big fat Indian weddings, and Indian movies.

Arnab Ray, in his inimitable style, creates a sassy portrait of the present-day India in May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss. Bolstered by the economic reforms of the 1990s, India has witnessed a sea of change in the lifestyle of the populace, especially in the urban areas. Against the backdrop of a burgeoning nation, the young and the restless, especially the ones who had their formative years in the 80s and 90s, have experienced several new phenomena. Being a part of that generation, Arnab Ray has seen the change in the urban landscape, the paradigm shift in the young Indianƒ??s mindset, the IT boom, and the cable television revolution. In the book, he discusses an array of issues relevant to this phase in Indiaƒ??s history.

May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss features the liberal usage of ƒ??Hinglishƒ??, the contemporary Indian lingo, and no-holds-barred humour. Arnab Ray uses clever titles for the bookƒ??s chapters, some of which are, The Great National Terror Strategy, Nowhere Resident Indians, Moro-Cop – Diary Of A Moral Cop, How To Start Your Own Management Institute, and How Bollywood Made Me Who I Am. Many of the chapters are sprinkled with first-person accounts of the writerƒ??s personal experiences.

Published in 2010, May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss became an ƒ??unexpectedƒ?? bestseller. It received generally favourable reviews from reputed Indian critics and was also included in the bestseller list of India Today.