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in June 2015. The novel is about an investment banker in New York who embarks on a quest to become a yogi in the
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in 2010. The novel's narrative is focused on the "bizarre, almost surreal series of events that transform an MIT graduate into first a genocide survivor, then a
Buddhist monk, a drug lord, a homeless accountant, a software mogul, and a deadly game fighter over a period of twenty years."
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In 2018, Bajaj started WhiteHat Jr, an online educational company initially aimed at improving children's coding and math skills. In 2020, the firm was acquired for $ 300 million by
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