What's Wrong with You, Karthik?

‘Fun, entertaining, a book full of characters and people you will identify with if you studied in Bangalore in the eighties and nineties ... a well-written, delightful read even if you didn’t’ – RAHUL DRAVID, former captain of the Indian cricket team


'From one of India's most beloved cricket writers a warm, minutely detailed evocation of boyhood. Vaidyanathan writes with passion and deep fondness for a bygone time. This is a novel whose parts are in alternation stirring and cheering, and thus textured like life itself' – SAMANTH SUBRAMANIAN, author of A Dominant Character, This Divided Island and Following Fish


'Great fun to read while offering something relatively uncommon in fiction – a chance to meaningfully inhabit the consciousness of an early adolescent coming into his own in an Indian city. I am thrilled by the skill and precision with which the novel captures the texture of Bangalore and its school life in the early 1990s. As we would have said back then – deadly!' – SRINATH PERUR, author of If It's Monday, It Must Be Madurai