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Content:

PART I: PUBLIC LIFE

1. Never Give Up, Fight to the End: Lessons from Changing Professions, Losing Jobs, and the Ups and Downs of Life
Arun Shourie

2. Three Workplaces and Lessons Learned
Palaniappan Chidambaram

3. Teaching, Service, Politics, Governance: A Journey
Yashwant Sinha

PART II: PRIVATE SECTOR

4. Product of Values
Narayana Murthy

5. Continuing to Learn
Kundapur Vaman Kamath

6. Village Teachers and Hallowed Institutions
Gullapalli Nageswara Rao

7. The Joys of a Professional Career
Yezdi Hirji Malegam

8. Human Connections, Human Learnings
K. Srinath Reddy

9. Lessons for Life (And Work)
Jamal Mecklai

10. To Thine Own Self Be True
Joydeep Mukherji

PART III: PUBLIC POLICY

11. Work and Life
Shankar Acharya

12. Reflections on a Career in the Civil Service: In a Season of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness
Sheela Bhude

13. Unity and Diversity
Nitin Desai

14. Abiding Friendship, Building Trust
Nand Kishore Singh

15. People Matter
K. Sujatha Rao

16. Fulfilment: Journey, Not Destination
Venkatramanan Anantha Nageswaran

PART IV: BANKING

17. Forty Years at RBI: A Journey of Challenges and Joys
Usha Thorat

18. An Unexpected Journey in Banking
Shyamala Gopinath

19. Collaboration, Coexistence
Vittaldas Leeladhar

20. Joys and Sorrows of a Working Life
Kaushik Jayaram

21. From Soapstone to ChatGPT: A Journey
B. Sambamurthy

22. Behind the Scenes of Pathbreaking Journeys
Radha Binod Barman

PART V: MEDIA

23. Myriad Brilliant Minds
Latha Venkatesh

24. An ‘Academic-Journalist’
C. Rammanohar Reddy

25. Past Pleasant, Present Imperfect
Tamal Bandyopadhyay

26. Three Careers
Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

27. A Journey Through a Changing India
Shaji Vikraman

PART VI: ACADEMIA

28. Building People, Building Institutions
Man Mohan Sharma

29. Defining Work with the Power of Quitting
M. S. Sriram

Summing Up: Rear View
Y. V. Reddy, Ravi Menon, and Shaji Vikraman