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Afterness: Home and Away
Author: Ashok S Ganguly
Publisher: Penguin India
Pages: 284
Price: Rs 599
Most corporate leaders tend to exaggerate their impact and role when writing their biographies or memoirs. Ashok S Ganguly does the opposite. He downplays his own contributions and tries to give the impression that everything he achieved — from becoming the chairman of Hindustan Lever (now Hindustan Unilever) to his stint as a nominated Member of Parliament — was entirely serendipitous. Afterness, his recently released memoir, is a lot like the man himself — unpretentious, matter-of-fact and pulling no punches.
After a brief prologue, where he looks at the hopes
