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Life’s Secret Lessons
Extraordinary stories about ordinary people’s lives
Over the years, Sudha Murty has come across some fascinating people whose lives make for interesting stories and have astonishing lessons to reveal. Take Vishnu, who achieves every material success but never knows happiness; or Venkat, who talks so much that he has no time to listen. In other stories, a young girl goes on a train journey that changes her life forever; an impoverished village woman provides bathing water to hundreds of people in a drought-stricken area; a do-gooder ghost decides to teach a disconsolate young man Sanskrit; and in the title story, a woman in a flooded village in Odisha teaches the author a life lesson she will never forget.
From the bestselling author of Wise and Otherwise and The Old Man and His God, this is another heart-warming collection of real-life stories that will delight readers of all ages.
Over the years, Sudha Murty has come across some fascinating people whose lives make for interesting stories and have astonishing lessons to reveal. Take Vishnu, who achieves every material success but never knows happiness; or Venkat, who talks so much that he has no time to listen. In other stories, a young girl goes on a train journey that changes her life forever; an impoverished village woman provides bathing water to hundreds of people in a drought-stricken area; a do-gooder ghost decides to teach a disconsolate young man Sanskrit; and in the title story, a woman in a flooded village in Odisha teaches the author a life lesson she will never forget.
From the bestselling author of Wise and Otherwise and The Old Man and His God, this is another heart-warming collection of real-life stories that will delight readers of all ages.
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5 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 15, 2013
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May 3, 2024
What a wonderful collection of short stories, as usual topped by sudha Murty's incredible writing.
November 3, 2020
Love this collection.
Some stories I have already read in some of her other short story collections.
But nevertheless, they are awesome stories which describe some events that happened in the life of the author and the life lessons she learnt from them.
Good, bad and ugly memories but nevertheless teaching us meaningful life lessons.
8 life lessons in all.
Totally enjoyable and yes, made me realise some fatal truths about people and reality.
Good read.
Some stories I have already read in some of her other short story collections.
But nevertheless, they are awesome stories which describe some events that happened in the life of the author and the life lessons she learnt from them.
Good, bad and ugly memories but nevertheless teaching us meaningful life lessons.
8 life lessons in all.
Totally enjoyable and yes, made me realise some fatal truths about people and reality.
Good read.
December 15, 2020
Very short and crisp book in which author shares her 8 lessons. Indeed a nice insight into life.
September 19, 2019
A good read. Might not agree with all the lessons but m sure everyone can relate to each lesson from the instances of their own life.
January 26, 2020
The book contains short and relatable lessons
December 17, 2021
Sudha Murty as usual didn’t fail to impress me with her impeccable raw writing. This is extremely short read full of valuable lessons.
November 8, 2022
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November 10, 2015
Excellent lessons
So simple but very true lessons which we experience in our daily lives with people surrounding us. Very lucid ly written
So simple but very true lessons which we experience in our daily lives with people surrounding us. Very lucid ly written
Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews