One Night at the Call Center (edit title)

Timothy Gray edited the language of an edition of One Night at the Call Center Friday, November 13 2009.

Timothy Gray edited the language of an edition of One Night at the Call Center Friday, November 13 2009.

Timothy Gray edited the language of an edition set of One Night at the Call Center Friday, November 13 2009.

• One Night at the Call Center: A Novel
• One Night at the Call Center

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the title of One Night at the Call Center Tuesday, November 10 2009.

Timothy Gray changed the title of One Night at the Call Center Tuesday, November 10 2009.

Shelfari edited the summary of One Night at the Call Center Tuesday, September 15 2009.

• Story of Call centre workers in India who attend at unearthly hours in their land to needs of people at the other end of the world, often getting abused into the bargain, all due to an easily available lucrative source of income. These people get recruited out of colleges, something of a drastic change from yore when well qualified graduates of most disciplines found it difficult a la Citadel and were disillusioned. Now, this is a impossible dream come suddenly true for no reason, one is paid several times over what a parent got with hard work for something as simple as calling or attending to calls mostly at night when everyone in your city is asleep. Good money, but difficult to stand the sense of life and time flowing past while one is doing this with no rewards in terms other than money that one has no time to enjoy or spend.

  And then one night there is a jolt of an awakening. Life changing visit to deep consciuosness for everyone working together when out for a drink after work.

  Pursuit of easy money is taking time away from life's aspirations and other matters that need attention, but those that are busy in this pursuit of money are stuck in a rut and unable to get off the wheel, need the money nevertheless, and then there is long overdue awakening.

Shelfari edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of One Night at the Call Center Tuesday, September 15 2009.

• Added: Pursuit of easy money is taking time away from life's aspirations, that need the money nevertheless, awakening.

Timothy Gray approved Kevin Durdle’s request to combine 4 books, including One Night at the Call Center, Tuesday, September 15 2009.

Kevin Durdle submitted a request to combine 4 books, including One Night at the Call Center, Monday, September 14 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of One Night at the Call Center Friday, July 31 2009.

• Press 1 for technical support. Press 2 for broken hearts. Press 3 if your life has totally crashed. . . . Six friends work nights at a call center in India, providing technical support for a major U.S. appliance corporation. Skilled in patience–and accent management–they help American consumers keep their lives running. Yet behind the headsets, everybody’s heart is on the line. Shyam (Sam to his callers) has lost his self-confidence after being dumped by the girl who just so happens to be sitting next to him. Priyanka’s domineering mother has arranged for her daughter’s upscale marriage to an Indian man in Seattle. Esha longs to be a model but discovers it’s a horizontal romp to the runway. Lost, dissatisfied Vroom has high ideals, but compromises them by talking on the phone to idiots each night. Traditional Radhika has just found out that her husband is sleeping with his secretary. And Military Uncle (nobody knows his real name) sits alone working the online chat. They all try to make it through their shifts–and maintain their sanity–under the eagle eye of a boss whose ego rivals his incompetence. But tonight is no ordinary night. Tonight is Thanksgiving in America: Appliances are going haywire, and the phones are ringing off their hooks. Then one call, from one very special caller, changes everything. Chetan Bhagat’s delicious romantic comedy takes us inside the world of the international call center, where cultural cross-wires come together with perfect pathos, hilarity, and spice.