Thank you Prime Minister.
"Every performance from Dastak to Koshish, Sholay, Anamika to Manchali, I have seen all his films and especially all the films he did with Jaya Bachchan ji. So many films were directed by Gulzar sahab with Haribhai... It was like Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro."
The story of India's first woman teacher, who made 'education for all' a reality. She was the first non-missionary, non-Government agent to start a school for girls in 1848.
My book is widely believed to be Savitribai Phule's first original biography in English. Even though I have focussed on the first half of her life, my humble endeavour has been to remind us that we owe her as well as her sisters in arms, Fatima Sheikh and Sagunabai Kshirsagar.
I was thriled to present a copy of 'Sanjeev Kumar- The Actor We All Loved' to Dean Soumitra Dutta at the SAID Business School. Copies of both Sanjeev Kumar and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's biographies are in their library.
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I author Bookstrapping, a weekly book review column, on Storyboard18, Moneycontrol and CNBC-TV18.
As they say, in life and in business, the surest way to expand your mind and to find inspiration is through knowing more, understanding more and reading more about everything.
If you're not a reader, you just haven't found the right book yet! If you would like to begin your reading journey and are stuck; I'm happy to suggest books that may be just right for you. I routinely coach corporates on how to develop the reading habit.
Write to me on reeta@reetaramamurthygupta.in
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India