Afterness

<p>In his memoir former Hindustan Unilever chairman Ashok Ganguly invites readers to journey with him as he looks back fondly on his extraordinary life - from his childhood to his upbringing in the metropolitan Bombay of the 1930s to his PhD in Illinois and his eventual return to India. After joining Hindustan Unilever's R&D department Ganguly quickly rose up the ranks as a talented young professional eager to discover and learn new things. The story spans across eighty years of his life its edges tinged by the tumultuous events in India in the twentieth century and interspersed with fascinating people from the mysterious Kishen Khanna who accurately predicted events in Ganguly's life to encounters and friendships with well-known historical figures such as Mother Teresa and Rajiv Gandhi. <p/> Ashok Ganguly's journey was interspersed with failures but he doesn't shy away from talking about these and the sacrifices that went on to define his life. Honest reflective personal and revelatory <i>Afterness </i>provides valuable insight into his thinking process and decision-making skills that enabled Ganguly's meteoric rise and sustained his legendary career.</p>