Cassie McCullough

So I'm not sure if this is true or not, but say the top 1,000 students of each year become, you know, they have their face in the local paper wherever they are in India.

The top 500 are kind of, well, mini celebrities.

But if you're in the top five, well, you're famous.

And Ramesh, to be able to pull this off, he's got a cupboard full of wigs so he can impersonate any student.

Yeah, it's very contemporary, isn't it?

Because if you make it into this echelon of the top, you know, thousand, you're guaranteed a placement at one of the big global universities in the US or in Europe and you're made and your family can practically dance in the streets because, you know, the path to success is paved.

Yeah, look, it's a bit of a, for me, what would I call it, like a sort of bro movie quote.

It's like Slumdog Millionaire meets The Hangover Part Two.

You know, like it's this sort of streetwise, wisecracking voice that it's got.

I mean, let me just read you the first paragraph.

The first kidnapping wasn't my fault.

The others, those were definitely me.

I was lying in a haze of brown bottles.

Rudy was on the floor, face streaked with a little vomit.

I was meant to be looking after him.

Rudy had been doing coke, a disgusting Western synthetic drug.

What was wrong with our drugs, the genteel, natural, oriental ones like opium or cat?

I like the jokes or the commentary on China as well.

I don't know if you picked that up, but, you know, like China and India being these two-speed economies which are, you know, doing really well in the digital technology age but not necessarily taking everyone with them.

And, you know, Ramesh's take on China is pretty funny.