Everything Is Out of Syllabus: An Instruction Manual for Life by Varun Duggirala

Everything Is Out of Syllabus: An Instruction Manual for Life by Varun DuggiralaLife seldom comes with an instruction manual or a guidebook. It's often messy and unpredictable too. While our education may prepare us for situations covered within its set syllabus, most of life happens outside this realm and this leaves us grappling with questions around work, life and everything in between. Hence, this book. Varun Duggirala has survived and thrived in a system that throws curveballs at us without the tools to actually overcome

he discovers that there is more to the mysterious Drax his project than simply cheating at cards

Czar Nicholas's nephew

move away and forget

elegant graphics with easy-to-understand text

A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab

so Ada has to wear large clumpy boots so that he can always hear her coming

But Lydia is under pressures that have nothing to do with growing up in 1970s small town Ohio

unexpectedly inherited the throne

Though set in a period and location far removed from 1922 Germany

Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers

Superbly translated

an unconvincing smile