Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss

Professor Chandra is an internationally renowned economist, divorced, and the father of three children he finds baffling. A cyclist-hit-and-run leaves him injured, and in the moments after it, what flashes before him is his life's work rather than his life.

He has just missed the Nobel Prize again. Even so, he means to go straight back to his pie charts. His doctor has other plans: the work, the success and the stress are killing him, and he needs to rest and enjoy himself.

The doctor's prescription is short. He should follow his bliss. Chandra is cantankerous and eccentric, and he has never gone looking for happiness before.

The novel is a comic character study built around the question of what makes people happy. Chandra's three children and his own stubborn habits are part of the answer he has to work out. The tone is humorous and warm, with an economist who has measured everything except this.