The tumultuous nature of corporate relationships is what this IT professional's novel tries to say referring to a Satyam-like company and resulting fiasco. The author, however, describes a mere coincidence as he told his tale quite a long time back.

"Yes, it's true that my book refers to a Satyam-like company and resulting fiasco through a fictitious company. But my book was written quite a few years back (and published last year), so there is no parallel drawn from Satyam per se," says Rakesh Misra, writer of "The eMedha Paradigm".

"Having said that, what worries me (and should do the same for quite a few regulatory folks and IT industry guardians as well) is the fact that I would have read, seen, heard, browsed through tits-and-bits of similar incidents or practices from quite a few places before carving up this fictitious company in my business novel.

"And, if something similar was happening in total or parts across IT ecosystem quite a few years back, then, we cannot treat the current situation of Satyam as an isolated case," he says.

Misra also has a piece of advice to offer.

"So, while we're seeing good measures being undertaken by both government and IT bodies, it is important that even other IT companies go through a phase of self-introspection to ensure that there are no bad-fishes around in their otherwise healthy organisations." On whether he would like a film to be made out of his book, Misra says he would prefer to have someone like Nagesh Kukunoor "being in-charge of the tentative book-to-film journey that my book might undertake".