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The Story of My Childhood and Boyhood [Hardcover]

The Story of My Childhood and Boyhood [Hardcover]

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The Story of My childhood and boyhood is a distillation of the first sixteen years of an intense life. It is also a social document of the making of one individual character. Surveying bits and pieces of the history of his ancestors, reconstructing their portraits, looking into their foibles and achievements, P. N. Haksar describes the process of his own growing up. He does not, however, believe that heredity alone shapes one's consciousness. While examining his roots, the author recalls how he spread out gradually into his own world. Between childhood and adolescence the author's universe consisted of 'stars, the moon, the sun and the sky around and friends and relations on this earth'. That universe, he affirms, deeply affected his unfolding consciousness as well as his being. Here, in his first autobiographical volume of what may come to be known as the Chetana trilogy, P. N. Haksar recreates the India of early 20th century and deftly captures its flavour and charm, its first stirrings under Gandhi and Nehru. His book is a moving evocation of the life he led in small towns of central India, keeping company with the poor and the humble, with insight into the special family occasions he savoured now and then in various parts of the subcontinent. P. N. Haksar, born in 1913, has been called the most distinguished public servant of his generation. After a spell as a barrister at the Allahabad high court (1943-8), he was drawn into the foreign service. ubsequently, he directed the course of government policies at home and abroad as Secretary and Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India, Mrs Indira Gandhi (1967-73). Later, as Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission and Vice Chairman of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, he was executive head of the country's planning and R & D structures (1974-7). He continues to be actively associated with institutions concerned with the advancement of knowledge, including the Indian Statistical Institute

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