What India Is Reading
Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Sheila Dixit, N.R. Narayana Murthy, Leila Seth on, yes, you guessed it, the books they are reading.
Sheila Dixit, Delhi Chief minister, Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
This is a very easy, readable book about a prisoner who escapes from a maximum security prison in Australia and arrives in Mumbai. What I find fascinating is how an outsider like him can appreciate things about India that we don’t know or take for granted.
N.R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor, Infosys Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives by Satyajit Das
I am on the jury of the Financial Times-Goldman Sachs best business book of the year and am expected to read some 16-20 business books. I find this book very interesting because it introduces complex ideas about corporate finance in an engaging, story-telling way.
Leila Seth, Writer Home by Manju Kapur
I am half-way through this, her third novel. I really enjoyed her first book, Difficult Daughters, but somehow missed reading her second book, A Married Woman. But this one I am liking a lot, especially her quiet style of telling a story.