Chinmoy Mukherjee

Don't Call Me Goobe (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"Don't Call Me Goobe" is a satirical novella by Chinmoy Mukherjee that chronicles the harrowing 30-day odyssey of Chunmun Singh, a young migrant from flood-ravaged Motihari in Bihar, who arrives in Bengaluru filled with dreams of prosperity in India's Silicon Valley. Fleeing poverty and natural disasters, Chunmun envisions a city of gleaming skyscrapers and steady jobs, but instead encounters a relentless barrage of xenophobia, linguistic barriers, and cultural clashes. From his first day, he faces hostility as an "outsider" from the North, with each chapter detailing a new encounter where minor misunderstandings-such as speaking Hindi, mispronouncing Kannada, or simply existing in public spaces-escalate into physical assaults by locals from all walks of life, including bus conductors, auto drivers, shopkeepers, colleagues, and even activists.

Through a series of darkly comic and increasingly absurd incidents, the story exposes the deep-seated resentments in Bengaluru toward North Indian migrants, who are blamed for everything from job theft and rising rents to cultural erosion and urban decay. Chunmun's attempts to adapt, like buying a Kannada phrasebook or maintaining silence, only backfire, turning compliments into flirtation fiascos, job interviews into rejections, and peaceful moments in parks or temples into violent expulsions. The novella paints a vivid portrait of the city's vibrant chaos-its scents of jasmine and exhaust, colors of saris and billboards, and sounds of multilingual cacophony-while highlighting the vicious cycle of mutual prejudice between locals and migrants, fueled by economic pressures and identity politics.

Ultimately, after enduring 30 beatings that culminate in a final, insignificant shove at the railway station, a broken Chunmun returns to Bihar, his Technicolor dreams shattered. Back in his village, amid the familiar monsoons and family embraces, he finds a bittersweet sense of belonging in the shared hardships of home. The novella concludes as a poignant commentary on India's fractious unity, where migration promises opportunity but often delivers alienation, and true stability lies not in urban ambition but in rooted resilience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chinmoy Mukherjee
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232177065
• Artikelnr.: 75683601

Autorenporträt

Chinmoy Mukherjee is the first Indian to author 100+ books in English, which includes 50+ Novellas. He has been working as solution architect for past 15 years. Over the past 25 years, he has contributed to 50 real-world software projects as an individual contributor. His experience has enabled him to design, develop, and deploy some of the most complex systems, handling millions of transactions per day. As both an AWS and GCP-certified architect, he has not only built 8 systems from scratch but has also successfully re-engineered 7 legacy systems, improving their performance by 1530%.

His expertise in cybersecurity has led to incredible discoveriessome thrilling, some frustrating. He was listed among the top 100 security researchers in the world for Microsoft (Q4, 2022) and also in Google's Hall of Fame. He ethically hacked Baba Bank, retrieving its entire customer database, and even achieved remote code execution in JPMC & Solana. Over time, he has reported critical vulnerabilities to 50+ Australian companies and received bug bounties from Uber, Apple, Mastercard, Octopus Australia, MagicLeap, and Paysafe. One of his wildest exploits? He found a vulnerability that let him order a Porsche without payingonly to receive a meager $1050 bounty for the discovery.

His penchant for testing boundaries made him the first engineer among 500,000 in HCLTech to complete and download all 1,000 offered certificates. In the industry, he played a critical role in defeating Infosys in 3 major RFPs while being part of underdog teams. Beyond corporate challenges, he took the lead in India's first blockchain token deployment, successfully developing and listing tokens on the Ethereum network.

Innovation has been central to his career. He holds 3 patents, granted in the USA and Australia. Among them, he developed "Patient Analytics," a patented system that underwent successful clinical trials in India. He has published a technical book titled "Build Android-Based Smart Applications" via Springer. This book has been downloaded by 18000+ software professionals from single channel of Springer.