BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY - Softcover

Raghunathan, V.

 
9789351772644: BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9351772640 ISBN 13: 9789351772644
Verlag: HarperCollins India, 2015

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India wasn't their janmabhoomi but they made it their karmabhoomi The 200-year British presence in India left behind a mixed legacy. We think of the colonial rulers as people who plundered and impoverished our land. Lost in that narrative is the work of the scores of well-intentioned individuals who played a part in shaping modern Indi...

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Raghunathan is an academic corporate executive author columnist and a hobbyist. He has made Bengaluru his home. He taught finance at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad for a couple of decades before turning a banker as the president of ING Vysya Bank in Bengaluru. He is currently the CEO of the GMR Varalakshmi Foundation. He continues to pursuehis academic interests as an adjunct professor at the University of Bocconi in Milan Italy and the Schulich School of Business York University in Toronto Canada. He has been writing extensively for leading newspapers and magazines and currently blogs for the Times of India. His many books include Duryodhana; Locks Mahabharata and Mathematics; Ganesha on the Dashboard; Corruption Conundrum; Don't Sprint the Marathon and Games Indians Play. Raghu has probably the largest collection of antique locks in the country has played chess at the all-India level and was briefly a cartoonist for a national daily. Veena Prasad writes essays and fi ction creates crosswords and content for children and adults makes compost at home and occasionally writes songs. Her first book Forever Forty celebrates the life of Col Vasanth V. an army officer who was awarded the Ashoka Chakra for his gallantry. She also has to her name a book of themed crossword puzzles for children Fun Across Zoom Down. Her essays are centred around creativity compassion science and meaningful education. Her stories book reviews and crosswords have been published by the Deccan Herald Hindu Young World Pratham Books Brainwave Reading Hour The Hoot and others.

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Verlag
HarperCollins India
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9351772640
ISBN 13 
9789351772644
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
242
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