# In My Beginning

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**Author:** Sanjeev Gupta
 **Pages:** 196 **Year of Publication:** 2014 **Price:**
Rs 300 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-086-4 (9789350450864)

_**About the Author**_
 Sanjeev Gupta is the nom de plume of Arabinda Ray. Born 
in 1930, educated in Kolkata and graduating from Presidency College, he likes to
describe himself as a first-generation professional manager. In 1970 his book of
essays _The Indian Manager in Search of a Style_, published by _Economic Weekly_(
precursor of _EPW_), was widely acclaimed. Several other books on management styles
followed, and a novel, _Sorrow Is Knowledge_ (Arnold Heineman, 1979). For forty 
years he worked on the topmost rungs of the corporate sector and was a non-executive
director in several well-known organizations in the private and public sectors. 
He was also on the guest faculty of leading management educational institutes. A
serious attack of poliomyelitis when he was 33 years of age enforced manifold restrictions
on him but in spite of this, he has always striven to live as normal a life as possible.

_**About the Book**_
 A romantic novel set in Calcutta in the 1950s, when it was
still the commercial capital of India where young men from modern families from 
all over northern India came for a career. They were all first generation business
managers from family backgrounds of law, medicine, landholding, teaching or government
service but not business. The main job providers were British firms who were opening
the gates slowly and reluctantly to Indian so-called “covenanted” officers.

These men lived in tight circles of their own, trying to do the “done” things as
they perceived from their seniors’ lifestyles. Into this scene arrives the central
character, Arani, who conforms as much as the others do but finds a touchstone to
release him – albeit not as happily as one might have hoped.

A review of the book can be read [here](http://www.thestatesman.com/news/8th-day/going-back-in-time/55962.html).

_**Contents**_

Postscript / 9

Book I
 THE PARALLEL / 13

Book II
 THE CIRCLE / 57

Book III
 THE POINT / 113

The Epilogue
 TWENTY YEARS LATER / 187