Accountant To Academic - An Unmapped Journey : A Memoir

<p>Raman’s memoir chronicles the dramatic change in his profession as an accountant to launching him on the unchartered waters of management of research and development projects in Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and suggesting a fair and just appreciation of public passenger road transport system operated by State Road Transport Undertakings. His role as a trainer in these two diverse fields – scientific research employing knowledge workers and passenger road transport employing blue-collar workers and a few managers – was daunting which he meets with a suitably tailored approach in the design and delivery of training programmes. His research studies on Indian road transport operating under administrated fares and social costs and his seminal study of the US highways financing system should interest readers in the area of public policy reforms.</p><p>His academic career spread over the whole gamut of teaching research consulting guiding research students administration of business schools and experience earlier in government and the public sector and brief but educative exposure to the Indian Parliamentary System vouch for his versatility. Raman's memoir should excite peers and students alike and serve as a model for future writers.</p><p>Narrated with candour and humour Raman’s description of his early life in Delhi amidst government servants and his own failed attempt to become a bureaucrat his pen picture of the Delhi’s Madrasis his family's musical legacy and religiosity and his values of accountability and integrity ungrudgingly shared in this memoir reveal his credentials as an engaging writer.</p>