With just 12 months to go before the 2010 Allied Victory Games in New Delhi, there is pandemonium at the Ministry for Urban Regeneration and Public Sculpture.
Preparations are months behind schedule and minister Badrikedar Laxmanrao Dahake not only has to deal with an irate PM but also the Lok Sabha, fiendish investigative journalists, and a relentless BBC reporter who insists on interviewing him live in English. Dahake is about to resign when he runs into an unlikely saviour: international financial wizard Robin ‘Einstein’ Varghese.

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Sidin Vadukut is a journalist, columnist and blogger. He has an engineering degree from NIT, Trichy and an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad. In a career spanning around a decade, he has made automotive parts, developed online trading platforms, almost set up a retailing company and had a sizeable portion of a tree fall on his head. He is currently an editor with Mint.