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Sir, I am leaving TELCO.” “Where are you going?” “Pune, Sir. My husband is starting a company called Infosys. So I have to shift to Pune.” “Oh! What will you do when you are successful?” “Sir, I do not know whether we will be successful or not.” “Never start with diffidence. Always start with confidence. When you are successful, you must give back to society. Society gives us so much, we must return it. I wish you all the best.” Then JRD continued walking up the stairs.’ Why would a 62-year-old choose her 12-year-old grand daughter as her teacher and offer her ‘guru-dakshina’? What would a knowledge-hungry child do if she had wings? Why did Grandmother always cook the inferior red rice at night, when there was plenty of fine white rice in the granary? What do you do when your daughter questions your value-system? ‘How I Taught my Grandmother to Read’ answers these questions and raises many more in the reader’s mind. The book is a collection of twenty five heart-warming stories from the
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