 "Book cover of Breaking Through: A Memoir")
I first heard of Isher Judge Ahluwalia in the mid-1980s when I was in Delhi University and again during my PhD days in the US, for her seminal work on productivity. Much later I heard of a gentleman called Montek Singh Ahluwalia who was married to Isher and was also a very good economist.
But this book is less about economics and more about a life well lived, on the author’s own terms. And it is very aptly titled —Breaking Through is about just that. Tightly written, the book’s 184 pages move speedily over decades of a magnificent life portrayed
