Desires, Dreams And Powers: Reminiscences Of West Bengal And The Northeast
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Desires, Dreams And Powers: Reminiscences Of West Bengal And The Northeast
Specifications
- Language:ENGLISH
- Format: PAPERBACK
- Pages: 562 pages
- ISBN-13: 9789392209802
- Item Weight: 880g
- Dimensions: 21.6 cm x 14 cm x 3.4 cm
- Genre: Biographies and Autobiographies
Description
Desires, Dreams and Powers is a fascinating saga of the life and times of Tathagata Roy. Not many people may have traipsed into so many fields of life as Roy has. He has been a civil engineer, an encyclopaedic, a university teacher, a researcher, a contract lawyer,&n
Tathagata Roy
Tathagata Roy was born in 1945 in Kolkata into a humble middleclass East Bengali Hindu family. Even as a student, he was brilliant at observing life around him, which has found expression in this book. Roy is something of a polymath. He began life as a civil engineer, joined the Indian railways and played a significant role in building India’s first Metro in Kolkata. He then branched off into law, enquiring into the intersection of law and engineering, the subject he taught at Jadavpur University. He later joined politics and worked to build up the BJP in his home state West Bengal. In 2015 he
