BREAKING THROUGH: A MEMOIR
Author: Isher Judge Ahluwalia
Published by Rupa Publications
Price ₹1395 Pages 173
It is difficult to condense a life in 173 pages. Yet, Isher Judge Ahluwalia, one of the first women in India to become a leading economist, a largely male-dominated field, does exactly that. Crisp and insightful, Breaking Through: A Memoir is essential reading for every woman who dared to dream. Her memoir comes a few months after her husband, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, released his book.
Breaking Through chronicles the last of the Delhi School of Economics generation to remain “aloof from politics… the last products of the Nehruvian consensus to which Indian intellectual life subscribed”. The rise of Naxalism and the Emergency ensured that the generations later would be more political. More importantly, it is an account of a woman who stepped into the male bastion, whether it was in Presidency College, where Isher was one of the four women out of 24 in the class, or in DSE or even when working at the International Monetary Fund.
This story is from the September 06, 2020 edition of THE WEEK.
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