Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you went through it with childlike nonchalance?

Have you ever wondered whether you should pursue happiness, or happily pursue life?

Have you ever felt tormented by the trivial and the profound?

Welcome to the world of Achet.

Achet hails from a small town. Having excelled at whatever the world threw at him, he is set to climb the tallest corporate ladders around. But he doesn’t know what he wants from life. Both, his desire to explore life and his work take him to Singapore. And thus begins the journey of self-discovery.

Despite the hectic schedule at work he finds the time to cynically size up those around him, experiment with drugs, lie for cheap thrills, display a complete disregard for professional ethics, almost commits career-suicide and a… cold-blooded murder.

Is there salvation for Achet? If so, is the price too high? Find out for yourself !!!!!!!

Resident Dormitus uniquely captures the hitherto unexplored territory when a youngster steps out of university and merges into the real world. It expounds upon the feeling of ‘Being lost’ after the initial euphoria of ‘Having arrived’ gets over. The novel’s protagonist is Dostoyevsky’s Idiot and Albert Camus’s Meursault rolled in one and the story follows him through a series of seemingly disconnected events which culminates into a dawning realization. He lies. He abuses – drugs, friends, family and life. He flirts – with morality and with death. He aids and abets suicide. He kills. At once, an accidental journey of self discovery and a deliberate free fall, the story is a potent potion of dark and trivial and witty yet profound. A distinctive novel that forces readers to question their own existence and the choices that led to it.

Vikas Rathi was born, purely by accident, into a middle-class family in Jaipur. He is a graduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Having drifted happily through life in cities like Mumbai, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, he currently works in Singapore. He has random obsessions which include dropping one-liners, missing deadlines, and an unhealthy emotional attachment to his slippers.