CONTENTS: Abbreviations, Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction, God Laughs and Other Reflections -Y. V. Reddy and Kavi Yaga, 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, List of Contributors, Index.