OLD MAN AND HIS GOD by Sudha Murty

 

Sudha Murty has spent her life helping people - teacher, writer, social worker, Married to the co-founder of Bangalore-based multinational information technology company Infoys  Ltd, she is the chair of the Infoys Foundation, the public charitable trust arm of the company. Her extraordinary intelligence, compassion and innate understanding of human nature has allowed her entry into many different and diverse communities. And yet people still surprise her, which is what this little book is all about - her encounters, often quite random, with people who challenge her expectations in surprising ways. Many of her short succinct stories have ethical dilemmas at their heart, the author's own humble attitude and generous spirit giving her the ability to analyse, perhaps not understand, but able to take us with her in her journeys. I really enjoyed this, and having lived in Bangalore a book such as this just gives mea little more insight into India and the enormously diverse conundrum of a place it is. This book was actually a farewell present from an Indian friend I had in Bangalore. I thought of her while I was reading it. 

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