Coming up on the show... by Shweta Ganesh Kumar
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is a nice book by a young Indian author who was a correspondent in a renowned news channel in India. It depicts the woes of a young college graduate who gets a job in a famous news channel and aspires to become a reporter for that channel and pursue her dream of bringing the social problems of India on to live screen.
She like many other young aspirants will not be able to do so as she is always bogged down by her seniors and peers owing to her lack of experience in the field she wants to be. Her determination and zeal to pursue her dream has been put to litmus tests many times until one day she breaks down in front of her best friend. This was the turning point when he advises her to keep her bosses informed about all her reporting skills in direct mail. She does as advised but is still ignored by them and also gets insulted by her immediate superiors when she dares to confront them on lack of feedback from them.
Meanwhile she decides to quit, with a heavy heart and simultaneously gets a job offer from some other place close to her home state, as a reporter in print media. This was when the top boss intervenes and transfers her to the same place of her new job, as a reporter and saves her from being let down in her aspirations.
Very well written using simple English and beautiful annotations. A must read for all those young graduates and post graduates who get recruited in MNCs but soon realize that they are not doing what they actually want to do in life. An eye-opener for all those who get into comfort zones of their present jobs and do not venture out to risk it out for what they used to aspire to become in their lives.

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