Why is the world getting increasingly fragmented? Is there a way for us to understand different viewpoints better?
In this collection, writers from India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan—Gulzar, Elmo Jayawardena, Manjula Padmanabhan, Poile Sengupta, Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, Subhadra Sen Gupta and others—write about various kinds of conflict in our society and history. Some stories are dark, others full of light and hope, and some outright funny as they portray mindless bigots for what they are.
When a church burns in Bangalore, the altar cloth ends up in the hands of Mubina, whose grandmother can clean and repair it like no one else; years after the Partition tore a friendship apart, two people try to find the happiness that was once within their reach; and while chasing away courting couples from the Delhi Ridge, a young thug learns a lesson about what really makes Indian ‘culture’.
Interspersed with poems that articulate pleas for peace and understanding, this collection is sure to start a conversation on religion, race, caste, and mindsets that divide us.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR N.R. Narayana Murthy
N.R Narayana Murthy is the Founder-Chairman of Infosys Technologies Limited, a global software consulting company headquartered in Bangalore, India. He serves on the boards of Unilever, HSBC, NDTV, Ford Foundation and the Un Foundation. He also serves on the boards of Cornell University, Wharton School, Singapore Management University, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, Indian Institute of Information Technology Bangalore and INSEAD. The Economist ranked Narayana Murthy among the ten most-admired global business leaders in 2005. He topped the Economic Times list of India’s most powerful CEOs for three consective years:2004 to 2006. He has been awarded the Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India, the Legion d’honneur by the British government. He is the first Indian winner of Ernst and young’s World Enterpreneur of the Year award and the Max Schmidheiny Liberty Prize, and has appeared in the rankings of businessmen and innovators published by India Today, Business standard, Forbes, BusinessWeek, Time, CNN, Fortune and Financial Times.
There are no reviews yet.