Breaking Through: A Memoir
By: Isher Judge Ahluwalia
4.31
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
This is the life story of Isher Judge Ahluwalia, one of the leading Indian policy economists of her…
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"Creativity is, in many respects, a response."-Matthew Syed, Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
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4. The Fountainhead
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7. तमस/Tamas
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4.04
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4.42
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3.17
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3.96
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13. India's Struggle for Independence
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4.50
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4.27
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"It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad."-Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal
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3.82
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4.40
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4.19
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19. The Silent Coup: A History of India's Deep State
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4.39
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4.22
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24. Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
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"These women relied on Shah Rukh when they found the real world and all its pandemics and practicalities inhospitable. Because only the deepest dissatisfaction with reality drives us to dwell in fanta…"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
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4.10
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28. Breaking Through: A Memoir
By: Isher Judge Ahluwalia
4.31
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
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- economics
29. BACKSTAGE: The Story behind India’s High Growth Years
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