Kautuk Srivastava – Red Card

Kautuk Srivastava – Red Card is a Comedy, Coming of Age, Sport book written by Kautuk Srivastava in English and is now available to purchase on Amazon.

Kautuk Srivastava

Not content with his success as a comedian and screenwriter, Kautuk Srivastava has also made waves in the world of literature with his debut novel Red Card. Published by Penguin India, Red Card is a coming-of-age story about a teenage boy’s journey from puberty to adulthood.

One team. One year. Everything to lose.

When Rishabh Bala reaches the tenth standard, life takes a turn for the complicated. The bewildered boy feels the pressure of the looming board exams and finds himself hopelessly-and hormonally-in love. But what he yearns for most is victory on the field: at least one trophy with his beloved school football team.

Set in the suburban Thane of 2006, here is a coming-of-age story that runs unique as it does familiar. Hopscotching from distracted classrooms and tired tutorials to triumphs and tragedies on muddy grounds, this is the journey of Rishabh and his friends from peak puberty to the cusp of manhood.

'A wonderful book and a must-read for everyone who has grown up playing football' -- Sunil Chhetri 

'Comedy is attainable by a very few. There is more journalism in Kautuk's stand-up acts than on TV news and there is more anthropology in his comedy than in most novels' -- Manu Joseph