Tales Of Growing Less Ordinary
From humble beginnings to the United Nations, Vinod Alkari underwent a phenomenal transformation by playing every role that came his way to the hilt, against the backdrop of a resurgent India and a world that slips ever so often into war. A must read for everyone to discover and reaffirm what it means to be a karma-yogi in today's day and age. Sanjay Dharwadker Author of Diamond in My Palm A good happy life is a vector quantity. More than 'how much', it is the 'direction' that defines it. Vinod Alkari has the soul of an engineer. He must appreciate this completely. These Tales Of Growing Less Ordinary are stories of Vinod's sluggish, persistent, tiny vectors, pushing him from the ignorance of poor small-town India to a global career with United Nations. Field engineer Vinod makes us relive his adventures across the expanse of India. He then hands us over to the wiser UNICEF officer who continues the trek into the hotspots of Nigeria and Iraq. “The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” Or is it? With apologies to Carlyle, stories of greatness are too often ridden with falsehoods. Worse, in the shadow of greatness, those stories linger on 'what' was achieved, at the expense of 'how' it was lived. Vinod Alkari's Tales Of Growing Less Ordinary is extraordinary in its effort to avoid that greatness trap.
