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Balram hears that high up Chinese politician will visit his home of Bangalore to learn more about the economic successes in India especially with the outsourcing of call centers. Balram decides to write him and tell the true story of business or entrepreneurship in India telling his story from his start as a promising student in a school where the teachers snoozes and steals more often than teaching and justifies it by the lack of salary to working in a tea shop, then really making it as a drive
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Wonderfully written and insightful read, this was between 4 and 5 stars for me. I liked how the author gave a no-holds-barred perspective on modern India and the caste system. I would have liked a longer book with more details on what happened after the pivotal event towards the end of the story. The ending made me feel like there was still more to understand.
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