By Korben Hunter

In Delhi there is a fictional company called Event Genius who are in the business of event management. They are about 500-odd strong and one of the top event management companies in the city, even in the country. They organise big events like award shows, celebrity weddings, club openings, film premieres, fashion shows, beauty contests and many others. If someone can afford them, they are the best at what they do. The company has been going in loss for the last four years. Why that is, we don’t know, but things are getting worse and the trend shows no sign of reversing. In such a situation when they get an offer for a merger from an American conglomerate called Douglas Media International, they take it seriously. The offer is only named as a merger, in effect, it would be that DMI would acquire EG and they would be free to do what they want with it. DMI notifies EG that they are sending one of their senior officials to assess the feasibility of the merger. This guy can recommend that the merger should go ahead, or be cancelled and DMI will accept that. He has the power to hire, fire, demote or promote anybody.