A sharp, biting, irreverent, funny and smart novel about India and Indian men. About male ambitions and inflated egos, about the battle of Indian bonds with inexorable progress, about quiet love and its strange consequences.

Ayan is from a lower caste, people like him do not make their way to the top, the path there is forbidden to them - caste restrictions , poverty and lack of education. But Ayan is unique. Too smart, dexterous and enterprising. He has already achieved the impossible - at the age of forty he is not only alive and well (which for an Indian man from a lower caste is tantamount to a miracle), but also works not as a rickshaw puller, not as a laborer for everything, but as a personal assistant to a brilliant scientist, a world-famous astrophysicist and obnoxious character. But this is not enough for Ayan, he is hatching a cunning and ambitious plan - to fly into the stratosphere of society. And his own son will serve as his launch vehicle - a boy who torments his teachers with his “prodigy” antics. Ayan dreams of putting his arrogant boss in his place, reviving his fading marriage, and at the same time becoming famous and rich. And while Brahmin astrophysicists are waging fierce battles for the theory of alien life, Ayan is gradually building his own disposition for an attack on this planet.