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Charaiveti : An Academic's Global Journey
376 pages, Paperback
Published January 31, 2024
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February 8, 2024
A wonderful narration of a world journey of a prominent Economist who started his journey from Kolkata and traversed the world. I could personally relate to lot of aspects like life in Kolkata and India, love for movies as well as the economic and political viewpoints. The autobiography was well constructed and flowed well with the right balance which would allow general readers and economists to enjoy and learn from the story.
July 14, 2024
A fun and interesting read about the long and eventful life of an esteemed Economist. Pranab Bardhan writes well and entertaining about the many academic stages of his life, his upbringing and intellectual influences, all the people he met along the way, interspersed with many funny anecdotes. I was hoping for slightly more substance and a bit less focus on the many famous economists that the author met, hence only 4 stars from me. But the book was quite transparent about this.
December 21, 2023
"𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆,
𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒏𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒚 𝒋𝒐𝒃.
𝑷𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆 𝑶𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝑺𝒂𝒂𝒃".
Book: Charaiveti
Author: Pranab Bardhan
Pages: 361
publication: Harpercollins India
Genre: Memoir / Autobiography
"Charaiveti" is the memoir of the Indian Economist " Pranab Bardhan" where he talks about his Personal & professional life. The journey started from living in a poor neighbourhood to attaining the position of professor Emeritus of economics at the University of California. Bardhan writes down about his chilhood life in kolkata, Shantiniketan, Student life at Cambridge, UK, etc.
This memoir is one of the wittiest and humourous memoirs & As the title suggests "charaiveti" which is taken from a Sanskrit hymn that means "keep moving" is a suitable title for this memoir because he had travelled a lot and his journies helped him in becoming a better version of himself. Bardhan's political & social approach is very sensible and outstanding and these are reasons why this memoir is so humorous.
I would like to recommend this book to everyone who loves to read memoirs as it will add some value to your lives.
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Thank you @harpercollinsin for sending this.
𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒏𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒚 𝒋𝒐𝒃.
𝑷𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆 𝑶𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝑺𝒂𝒂𝒃".
Book: Charaiveti
Author: Pranab Bardhan
Pages: 361
publication: Harpercollins India
Genre: Memoir / Autobiography
"Charaiveti" is the memoir of the Indian Economist " Pranab Bardhan" where he talks about his Personal & professional life. The journey started from living in a poor neighbourhood to attaining the position of professor Emeritus of economics at the University of California. Bardhan writes down about his chilhood life in kolkata, Shantiniketan, Student life at Cambridge, UK, etc.
This memoir is one of the wittiest and humourous memoirs & As the title suggests "charaiveti" which is taken from a Sanskrit hymn that means "keep moving" is a suitable title for this memoir because he had travelled a lot and his journies helped him in becoming a better version of himself. Bardhan's political & social approach is very sensible and outstanding and these are reasons why this memoir is so humorous.
I would like to recommend this book to everyone who loves to read memoirs as it will add some value to your lives.
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Thank you @harpercollinsin for sending this.
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