Roots And Routes: A Journey From Privilege To Purpose

Born into a wealthy Zamindar family in Bihar India Anil Dev lived a childhood of unquestioned privilege where village children fled from his touch to avoid contamination and workers carried him on their backs like horses. This unflinching memoir chronicles his journey from feudal entitlement to purposeful citizenship across five decades of corporate leadership. From insurgency-torn Northeast India to the markets of Cameroon from corporate boardrooms to 60 feet beneath the Arabian Sea as a certified scuba diver Dev''s travels became a gradual awakening to the human cost of inherited advantage. Working with ULFA rebels Naga tribal councils and American business leaders he discovered that true success means lifting others up not standing above them. Roots and Routes is more than a business memoir it''s a confession of complicity and a blueprint for redemption. Dev returns to his ancestral village not as a feudal lord but as an advocate for fair wages and dignity for the very families his ancestors exploited. The boy who once rode workers like horses now employs their grandchildren as equals. With brutal honesty about caste privilege and power this book challenges readers to examine their own advantages and responsibilities. It offers the difficult truth that awareness can be cultivated privilege can be purposeful and it''s never too late to choose justice over comfort. A powerful memoir for anyone wrestling with questions of inherited advantage and the possibility of meaningful change. Anil Dev is a business leader with over 35 years in corporate leadership at Coca-Cola India and Mother Dairy. He now operates sustainable agricultural businesses in rural Bihar transforming exploitative systems into equitable partnerships.