How the Light Gets in - Couverture rigide

Alexander, Ashok

 
9780670094219: How the Light Gets in
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0670094218 ISBN 13 : 9780670094219
Editeur : Vintage Books, 2023

Synopsis

There is an adventure inside every person, waiting to be had . . . the discovery of a self, long buried within.
This personal belief reverberates through Ashok Alexander's How the Light Gets In. In his memoir of an improbable start-up in public health, he writes about an organization with the audacious goal of ending needless deaths and sickness at scale, amongst India's poorest mothers and children. It is a great leap emboldened by an unshakable faith in the 'idea that cannot be denied'. It is a tale of adventure filled with twists and turns, told with a disarming honesty.

Ashok writes with his signature ability to transport the reader from the ground-level view of a Mumbai shoeshine boy, through hushed hallways of power, and on to the green forests and enchanting hills of tribal Madhya Pradesh-where much of the book is set. This book is a curated tour of the other India, with all its pathos and ineffable beauty. This is also a story of personal transformation-Ashok left a high-profile job in corporate India to be inspired by the everyday heroism and grit of utterly marginalized women, soon after realizing a simple truth: you must ask the way from those you serve. The journey described here will leave you awash with feelings-joy, anguish, anger, compassion and much laughter. It is about the adventures waiting within, that give great hope and never fail to inspire.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ashok Alexander studied at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, the Delhi School of Economics and the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He went on to have a long career with McKinsey & Company in New York and India.

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Éditeur
Vintage Books
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0670094218
ISBN 13 
9780670094219
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
384
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Personne responsable
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