Karan Bajaj

Karan Bajaj is an Indian American author of three contemporary Indian novels, Keep Off the Grass , Johnny Gone Down and The Seeker . Bajajs first novel, Keep Off the Grass, which became a bestseller with more than 70,000 copies sold in the year of release, was a semifinalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and was longlisted for the Indiaplaza Golden Quill Award. Together his novels have sold more than 200,000 copies in India.

Keep Off The Grass was Bajajs first venture into writing. The story is about a psychedelic road trip of a 25yearold Yale graduate through the length and breadth of India. The journey is made by a brilliant youngster named Samrat, born to immigrant parents in the U.S. who decides to go out in search of his roots. Along the way Samrat, the protagonist, ends up in prison for possession of marijuana, develops a drug addiction, meditates in the foothills of the Himalayas, has a onenight stand with a hippie in Dharamsala and meets flesheating Aghoree saints on the banks of Varanasi.

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