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B-school universe
Arbit Choudhury
Can appear in the comics with any other characters. Can either make a wise crack or be at the receiving end
Arpit Choudhury, dude’s your average second-year MBA warrior at an ivy league B-school. His life’s basically a non-stop, caffeine-fueled quest to juggle tests, assignments, presentations, competitions, and case studies (more like case-struggles, amirite?). Oh, and there’s the mandatory dose of internet browsing, friend-fueled gossip sessions, and strategic ctrl+C, ctrl+V action. Food, sleep, and buddies? Nah, those are just side quests in the epic grind.
Now, like any self-respecting management hopeful, Arpit dreams bigger than his caffeine habit (which is saying something). Dude’s got visions of corner offices and million-dollar deals, even if his current “business acumen” mostly involves applying marketing theories to score free pizza. But hey, that’s what you get when “management is an art,” as he loves to say with a wink (because let’s be real, it’s basically a four-letter word with a silent “F”).
His “wisdom” usually leaves everyone in stitches, even if it’s mostly business mumbo-jumbo masquerading as profound insights. No wonder his friends nicknamed him “ARBIT” Choudhury” – dude drops more corporate buzzwords than a broken jargon machine.
Maya
Usually appears in comics only with Arbit. Can either make a wise crack or be at the receiving end
and Arbit, two peas in a pod since engineerin’ school, had a bond tighter than a double knot. Now, Arbit, smitten from the start, couldn’t confess his feelings for beans. But love works in mysterious ways, and Maya caught the same bug! One surprise proposal later, they were inseparable.
Maya, a simple gal who loved keeping things real, sometimes felt like Arbit’s fancy MBA degree had launched him to Mars. Dude spoke in corporate gibberish all day, makin’ plans that’d confuse Einstein. To Maya, it was all talk, no walk.
So, she became his anchor, reminding him Earth still existed and fancy words didn’t build bridges. This love story wasn’t just about hearts and arrows, it was about keeping each other grounded, one jargon-busting conversation at a time.
Antique Jain
Usually appears in comics with Arbit alone or with Arbit + Prof. / Arbit + Perplex Singh. Usually present in business jargon related or B-school life related comics. Can either make a wise crack or be at the receiving end.
Ankit “Antique” Jain, the undisputed king of the study jungle. This dude’s got it all: brains sharper than a laser pointer, focus tighter than a mama bear’s hug, and PR skills smoother than a politician’s promises. Kotler chapters? Piece of cake. Fortune 500 profits? Tip of his fingers. CEO face recognition? Dude knows ’em all like his own family (except they probably pay their bills on time). Dream job? McKinsey, baby, McKinsey.
But hey, even genius gets lonely, so Antique hangs with his buddy Arbit, the engineering Einstein with a side of chill. Antique, all spreadsheets and midnight oil, while Arbit’s the data-cooking Casanova, whippin’ up answers smoother than his moves on the dance floor. Opposites attract, right? So when Antique gets stumped by a stats question, who you gonna call? Arbit, the answer-fabricator extraordinaire, slingin’ solutions so wild they make Einstein do a double take.
Perplex Singh
Always has a confused expression on his face. Usually appears in comics with Arbit alone or with Arbit + Prof. / Arbit + Antique. Usually present in business jargon related or B-school life related comics. Always at the receiving end of a wise crack
Meet Parpreet Singh, Arbit’s understudy in B-school. This dude hails from Sardarpur, a Punjabi town so small you can practically hear the cows mooing from the next street. After engineering his way into a project engineer gig at a factory, his initial gung-ho quickly fizzled to “meh.” Why? Turns out, his bosses were big on blabbing and light on, well, everything else. Feeling like a hamster on a wheel, Parpreet chucked the whole thing after five years and decided to take a fancy dive into the MBA pool.
But whoa, mama! This B-school life was like diving into a whole new ocean. Late nights fueled by instant coffee and Google became the norm. Presentations piled up like dirty laundry, and parties went from ‘bhangra beats’ to ‘boring business case studies.’ Talk about culture shock for a rustic village boy like Parp!
Confused by the whole shebang, Parp constantly seeks guidance from Arbit. Only problem? Arbit’s explanations are like listening to a robot malfunctioning. Dude leaves Parp even more lost than a tourist with a broken compass. So, naturally, his mates dubbed him “Perplex’Singh,” a nickname as accurate as it is hilarious.
Prof LR
Usually appears in comics with Arbit alone or with Arbit + Antique / Arbit + Perplex Singh. Usually present in business jargon related comics. Can either make a wise crack or be at the receiving end.
Professor Lingampally Rangareddy? Forget Voldemort, this dude’s the Thanos of tough! Stricter than a ruler, he knows every number-crunching tool under the sun, from fancy-pants Factor Analysis to that six-sigma mumbo jumbo. And guess what? He expects you to wield them like lightsabers against every management problem that twitches.
Campus legend has it that before popping the question, the Professor QFD’ed his future wife, not with some hocus-pocus horoscope, but with cold, hard data! Talk about commitment to the cause, right?
So yeah, you can imagine Arbit isn’t exactly his golden boy. Arbit, the walking antithesis of all things analytical, operates on the “no sweat, all swagger” principle. Where the Professor preaches “think before you blink,” Arbit’s motto is “shoot first, ask questions… maybe later.” Their classroom clashes are the stuff B-school dreams are made of – think gladiatorial arena meets stand-up comedy. Buckle up, it’s gonna be a wild ride!
Corporate Universe
TekNik
Usually appears in comics with Arbit alone or with other characters in the IT company. Can also appear in start-up related comics. Usually appears in comics related to life in a corporate scenario. Can either make a wise crack or be at the receiving end.
Nikhil Tekade, closer to Arbit than his phone to its charger – college roomies back in engineer-land. Dude could code circles around anyone, knew IT like the back of his hand, but grades? Those were like dragons – rare and fire-breathing. Hence the nickname TekNik – brains were techie fireworks, grades were damp squibs.
First tech company on campus? Swooped him up faster than free pizza. Three jobs in a year and a half, each one doubling his pay like a magic money-making hamster. Now, wouldn’t you know it, TekNik and Arbit are neighbours again! City must be shrinking.
They meet up, chat tech versus biz. TekNik’s all “deployment, deadlines, debug this!”, while Arbit’s on “vision, mission, world domination!”. Every time, same story – they leave thinking the other guy’s got the greener cubicle. Maybe the grass is just astro-turf everywhere, huh?
Johnty Python
Usually appears in comics with TekNik alone or with other characters in the IT company. Usually appears in comics related to life in a corporate scenario. Always at the receiving end of the wise crack.
Jatheswaran Chandrakutanand Piraswami, better known among friends as Johnty Python, the data-wrangling wizard with a name longer than a server log, is Teknik’s partner in deciphering Tech Codies’ corporate mysteries. A true-blue IIT-nerdian, his brain could build algorithms smoother than a buttered naan, but alas, the fickle US visa gods weren’t impressed by his multisyllabic monicker.
Stuck in Tech Codies’ sweatshop, Monty and TekNik formed a nerd alliance, navigating the labyrinthine decrees of their overlords, Kahar Barpakar and Mohini, with more confusion than a hamster in a maze. Their office banter was a hilarious symphony of code jokes, pop culture references, and exasperated sighs punctuated by the rhythmic clack of their keyboards.
Together, they were the reluctant heroes of Tech Codies, unraveling its absurdities with wit and caffeine, always one sarcastic comment away from a spontaneous code rebellion.
Kahar Barpakar – the Boss
Usually appears in comics with TeckNik alone or with other characters in the IT company. Always says unreasonable or unrealistic things. Can either make a wise crack or be at the receiving end.
Dude, Kahar Barpakar? His name screams “control freak” louder than a toddler with a megaphone. This guy runs his projects like a drill sergeant, obsessed with customers, details, budgets tighter than a mummy’s wrap, and deadlines that’d make Einstein cry. Forget empathy, teamwork, or feelings – dude’s EQ is flatter than a pancake. TekNik and Monty swear his ancestors used to ride whips, ’cause that’s how he treats us.
But guess what? Those ironclad rules vanish faster than coffee at a meeting when it comes to the bigwigs in office. After a while of Kahar’s drill-master routine, Teknik and Monty became numb as a dentist’s waiting room. They just grin and bear it, dreaming of the day we escape Project Torquemada.
Mohini – the HR lady
Usually appears in comics with TeckNik alone or with other characters in the IT company. Always says unreasonable or unrealistic things related to HR. Can either make a wise crack or be at the receiving end.
Some jobs are mysteries wrapped in riddles, sprinkled with jargon dust, and HR wins that crown every time. But Mohini? She’s a whole enigma Olympics gold medalist. This lady’s got all the HR superhero powers: stunning looks, smooth talk that could sell ice to Eskimos, and a vocabulary filled with more buzzwords than a bee convention. She could spin the most brutal policy into a “paradigm shift for employee empowerment” with a smile that’d melt the North Pole.
Now, Teknik and Monty, bless their nerdy hearts, think Mohini’s their oracle of office answers. They head to her desk with daily woes, eyes full of hope, only to leave more confused than a lost penguin in the Sahara. Her explanations leave them blinking like owls in a disco, muttering things like “synergy” and “optimizing workflows” under their breath. But hey, at least there’s free coffee in the break room, right?
Startup Universe
Hy Pitchwala
Usually appears in comics with Arbit and TeckNik alone or with other characters in the start-up ecosystem. Can either make a wise crack or be at the receiving end.
Meet Hyder Pitchwala, the only startup founder with a voice that sounds like a TED Talk on 2x speed and the business logic of a caffeine-soaked fortune cookie. Hence his nickname – High Pitchwala! He’s convinced the world needs an app that predicts your mood based on the pitch of your sneeze, and honestly, his investors can’t decide whether to laugh or politely call security. With every problem, he leaps into “solution mode” by pitching at such ultrasonic frequencies that local dogs bark their seed money at him—pitch decks not required.
In the bustling co-working space, High Pitchwala is infamous for his PowerPoint slides packed with so many buzzwords they trigger autocorrect to quit in protest. His leadership style? Somewhere between motivational speaking and interpretive dance; team meetings double as impromptu therapy, complete with his signature catchphrase: “Fail fast, fail frequent, fail fabulous!”
But in the land of big ideas, High’s optimism is both his weapon and kryptonite. While he burns through incubators like his ideas burn through seed funding, he never loses faith—especially not when explaining to his parents, for the 500th time, that “pre-revenue” isn’t just a phase, it’s a lifestyle. Whether he’s pivoting from “social impact blockchain” to “AI-enabled tea cozies,” one thing’s for sure: you’ll never find a founder who can turn a Zoom call into a standup comedy set or make everyone—even his competitors—root for his next, gloriously high-pitched, big swing.
Ethan Grover
Usually appears in comics with Hi Pitchwala or with other characters in the start-up ecosystem. Marketing hype generator and bullshitter who can convert any tech trend into a marketing pitch
Born to British-Indian parents now living in Singapore, Ethan is the kind of marketer who looks like he wandered in from a late-night coding sprint but speaks like he’s about to keynote a global startup summit. Permanently wrapped in a full-sleeve sweatshirt – regardless of weather, funding stage, or office air-conditioning – and sporting a meticulously untrimmed full-face beard, Arjun projects the visual authority of someone who has “seen things” in early-stage startups.
Known internally as GrowthHacker, and self-styled his name as ‘Grower’, Ethan can make one believe that a half-functional product is a “category-defining narrative” and inflate three curious users into a “rapidly growing community.” Metrics are his native language, particularly the kind that sound impressive in pitch meetings but require generous interpretation under scrutiny: engagement velocity, brand warmth, and founder-market resonance.
Ethan is magnetically drawn to every new growth trend the internet declares inevitable. Meme-led distribution, community flywheels, AI-generated brand voices, influencer arbitrage – if it has a buzzword and a Medium article, Ethan already has a Notion doc titled “V1 Strategy.”
Ethan once tasted victory. During High Pitchwala’s single brush with functional success, his ESOPs briefly materialized into real money – enough to buy a modest home on the outskirts of Singapore, and cement the belief that patience plus chaos eventually pays. That house now stands as both proof and prophecy: if it happened once, it can happen again.
Financial realism, however, is not Ethan’s strong suit. He confuses runway with optimism and treats dilution as a philosophical concept rather than a numerical one. Yet he stays through every pivot, every rebrand, every “stealth relaunch,” often working late into the night, rewriting positioning statements for products that may not exist by morning.
When doubt seeps into the team, Ethan is the one reframing failure as narrative arc. He posts morale-boosting messages on Slack, reminds everyone they are “early,” and assures Dev that this pivot finally has the distribution advantage the last seven lacked. Deep down, Ethan is not chasing stability – he is chasing the moment when belief converts into vindication.
In High Pitchwala’s startup universe, Ethan Grover is the hype engine generator that never shuts down, running on caffeine, conviction, and the quiet hope that the next big story will finally be the last one they need to tell.
Dev stack overflow
Usually appears in comics with Hi Pitchwala or with other characters in the start-up ecosystem. Faithful Technologist and geek to Hi Pitchwala
Born in Sthakoloveri, Kerala, India Devlin’s colleagues refer to him as “Dev” and “Stackoverflow” due to his middle name and because no one understands how he solves tech problems. Dev is High Pitchwala’s technical backbone and emotional shock absorber. Dev is the kind of engineer who can debug a race condition at 3:17 a.m. but still believes ESOPs are a “long-term spiritual investment.” He is equally nerdy about the Bible and Bhagwad Geeta as he is about Linux and Gnu’s Open source philosophies.
Armed with T-shirts from defunct hackathons and an encyclopedic knowledge of programming languages that peaked and died within the same fiscal quarter, Dev is irresistibly drawn to every shiny new technology trend. Whether the idea survives the week is irrelevant; Dev believes being first matters more than being right.
Like Ethan, Dev also once struck gold during one of High Pitchwala’s rare moments of accidental competence. Dev’s ESOPs matured just enough for him to buy a small row-house in the old city. The framed house-registration document still hangs above his desk – a relic of hope and a constant reminder that lightning can strike. Since then, every pivot feels like déjà vu wrapped in promise.
Financially naïve and emotionally invested, Dev measures success not in cash flow but in commits, launches, and “learning opportunities.” He burns through nights, weekends, and personal sanity with monk-like devotion, convinced that the next repo, the next rewrite, the next pivot will finally be the one. When doubts creep in, High Pitchwala needs only whisper, “This is the latest tech trend,” and Dev is back at his keyboard, caffeinated and reborn.
Cashu Bhai Patel
Usually appears in comics with Pitchwala or with other characters in the start-up ecosystem. Can either make a wise crack or be at the receiving end.
Meet Cashu Bhai Patel, the mythical venture capitalist whose very presence makes startups sprout pitch decks like mushrooms after the rain. Sporting a wardrobe that says “Silicon Valley on a Mumbai budget,” Cashu arrives at every founders’ meet-up with the swagger of a Bollywood hero and the attention span of a golden retriever at a squirrel convention. Legend has it, Cashu Bhai once funded a foodtech startup because the founder promised to name a samosa after him—now, somewhere in Bangalore, you can order “The Cashu Crunch.”
This is a man who truly lives for the thrill of “synergy” and “pivoting to scale.” His personalized jargon is so thick that young MBA grads take notes just for survival. Entrepreneurs pitching to Cashu Bhai are advised to use at least three buzzwords per sentence; extra points for “blockchain,” “disruption,” and “chai-break ideation.”
In due diligence meetings, his sole focus is on the free snacks tray, but don’t mistake his casual posture—underneath that relaxed tea-sipping demeanor, he can spot a fake user number faster than you can say “runway extension.”
Despite the bravado, Cashu Bhai’s heart beats for the dreamers. Mistaking chaos for innovation, he encourages founders to push boundaries—especially if those boundaries involve persuading their aunties to download an app. When asked about investment philosophy, Cashu Bhai simply winks and hums, “High risk, high tea!” He may never win a Nobel Prize, but he’ll always win the networking game—especially if there’s free food involved.
Cash Banks Goldman
Usually appears in comics with Cashu Bhai, Pitchwala or with other characters in the start-up ecosystem. A more no-bullshit guy, and typical British stiff upper lip attitude.
Meet Cassius Banks Goldman, the venture capitalist who looks less like he’s attending a startup pitch and more like he’s about to audit the Roman Empire. If Cashu Bhai Patel is the monsoon of chaos, Cassius is the crisp London winter—sharp, cold, and absolutely uninterested in your founder “energy” unless it converts into revenue.
Clad in impeccably tailored suits that seem allergic to creases, Cassius walks into demo days with the air of a man who has already identified the top two winners and is merely here to confirm his hypothesis. His accent is so precise that founders suddenly grow conscious of every grammatical mistake they have ever made. Where Cashu Bhai arrives with a grin, Cassius arrives with a notebook, a fountain pen, and a 12-point rubric for “Founding Team Competency Under Pressure.”
Legend has it that Cassius once ended a pitch in exactly seven seconds. The founder had said, “We think we can maybe scale to …” and gently closed his notebook, nodded with polite British mercy, and replied, “I don’t invest in maybes.” He prefers ventures that can grow with the muscular efficiency of a Roman legion – disciplined teams, measurable strategy, and absolutely no slides with comic sans.
A student of great ideas, ‘Cash’ as addressed by his American friends, treats innovation like fine art: worth examining from all angles, but only if the canvas isn’t still wet. His diligence meetings are said to be emotionally transformative experiences – founders walk in optimistic and walk out with clearer roadmaps, stronger financial models, and occasionally, mild existential dread. Snacks? He declines them. Not because he isn’t hungry, but because he believes founders should “consume only what they can justify on their P&L.”
Cash’s investment philosophy can be summarized in his favourite phrase: “Show me traction or show me the door.” He cares little for hype, influencer endorsements, or buzzwords – utter “synergy” in his presence, and he will stare at you until the word dies of embarrassment.
Yet beneath the austere exterior lies an almost secret admiration for builders who refuse to give up. Stories circulate of Cassius quietly wiring funds to founders who demonstrate extraordinary grit, provided they also demonstrate unit economics that would make a banker weep with joy. He may appear inscrutable, but he champions those with clarity of purpose and the courage to reject shortcuts.
Cassius Banks Goldman may not charm the crowd like Cashu Bhai, but in the mythology of your startup universe, he is the force that turns promising ventures into enduring institutions – one brutally honest pitch session at a time.
Arbit
Arpit Choudhury, dude’s your average second-year MBA warrior at a Ivy-league B-school. His life’s basically a non-stop, caffeine-fueled quest to juggle tests, assignments, presentations, competitions, and case studies (more like case-struggles, amirite?). Oh, and there’s the mandatory dose of internet browsing, friend-fueled gossip sessions, and strategic ctrl+C, ctrl+V action. Food, sleep, and buddies? Nah, those are just side quests in the epic grind.
Antique
Ankit “Antique” Jain, the undisputed king of the study jungle. This dude’s got it all: brains sharper than a laser pointer, focus tighter than a mama bear’s hug, and PR skills smoother than a politician’s promises. Kotler chapters? Piece of cake. Fortune 500 profits? Tip of his fingers. CEO face recognition? Dude knows ’em all like his own family (except they probably pay their bills on time). Dream job? McKinsey, baby, McKinsey.
TekNik
Nikhil Tekade, closer to Arbit than his phone to its charger – college roomies back in engineer-land. Dude could code circles around anyone, knew IT like the back of his hand, but grades? Those were like dragons – rare and fire-breathing. Hence the nickname TekNik – brains were techie fireworks, grades were damp squibs. First tech company on campus? Swooped him up faster than free pizza.
Prof LR
Professor Lingampally Rangareddy? Forget Voldemort, this dude’s the Thanos of tough! Stricter than a ruler, he knows every number-crunching tool under the sun, from fancy-pants Factor Analysis to that six-sigma mumbo jumbo. And guess what? He expects you to wield them like lightsabers against every management problem that twitches.
Mohini
Maya and Arbit, two peas in a pod since engineerin’ school, had a bond tighter than a double knot. Now, Arbit, smitten from the start, couldn’t confess his feelings for beans. But love works in mysterious ways, and Maya caught the same bug! One surprise proposal later, they were inseparable.
Johnty Python
Matheswaran Chandrakutanand Piraswami, better known among friends as Johnty Python, the data-wrangling wizard with a name longer than a server log, is Teknik’s partner in deciphering Tech Codies’ corporate mysteries. A true-blue IIT-nerdian, his brain could build algorithms smoother than a buttered naan, but alas, the fickle US visa gods weren’t impressed by his multisyllabic monicker.
Maya
Maya and Arbit, two peas in a pod since engineerin’ school, had a bond tighter than a double knot. Now, Arbit, smitten from the start, couldn’t confess his feelings for beans. But love works in mysterious ways, and Maya caught the same bug! One surprise proposal later, they were inseparable.
Kahar Barpakar
Dude, Kahar Barpakar? His name screams “control freak” louder than a toddler with a megaphone. This guy runs his projects like a drill sergeant, obsessed with customers, details, budgets tighter than a mummy’s wrap, and deadlines that’d make Einstein cry. Forget empathy, teamwork, or feelings – dude’s EQ is flatter than a pancake.
