Return to Jammu

by V. Raghunathan

Overview

Balan, growing up in the small cantonment towns of Ambala and Jammu in the 1960s, is the son of a junior army officer. His is a packed life, with tough schoolmasters, homework and games with playmates to keep him busy. And, above it all, is the strange species called adults, who have a curious understanding of life.

The story follows Balan's struggles as he grows up and enrols at IIM Ahmedabad. He is certain one of his fellow students is his childhood friend. But she is not who he thinks she is - she says so herself. Balan, though, is not convinced and returns to a despoiled Jammu to find out the truth.

Return to Jammu is a story of growing up, with its heartache of losing close friends and a childhood sweetheart, and eventually making one's way in the world. Warm, personal and deeply evocative of the early years of one's own as well as the life of a nation, much like R.K. Narayan's Swami and Friends, it reveals a new side to bestselling author V. Raghunathan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789352773664
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers India
Publication date:	03/16/2018
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	352
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

V. Raghunathan is an academic, corporate executive, author, columnist and a hobbyist. He taught finance at IIM Ahmedabad before turning a banker as the president of ING Vysya Bank and CEO of the GMR Varalakshmi Foundation. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Bocconi in Milan and the Schulich School of Business, York University, in Toronto.