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02254nam a2200229 4500 |
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20250618163041.0 |
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9789364879033 |
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Purchased |
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Current Books,Convent Jn,Ernakulam |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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English |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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F |
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VAS/TH |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Vasuki,K |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
SCHOOL OF LIFE |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
2 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Kottayam |
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DC |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2025/05/01 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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438 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Far from being a self-eulogising chronicle, K. Vasuki’s The School of Life is a blazingly honest account of her evolution from ’an imperfect human into, not a perfect human, but a better version of herself. Steadfast in her insistence that she is not positing any definitive, universally applicable solutions to the troubles of life, she offers us a glimpse into her inspiring life and career in the Indian Administrative Service, demanding throughout that we ’keep questioning everything she says. Unassuming as she is, she even downplays her monumental role in coordinating the disaster relief operations during the 2018 floods in Kerala, which devastated thirteen of the state’s fourteen districts. As the District Collector of Thiruvananthapuram, the able and committed Vasuki was also reckoning with a far more pervasive and pernicious issue, which sparked off not only those floods but this year’s Wayanad landslides too. In her own words, “having been at the pinnacle of management’ during the crisis, she was ’frustrated that as humanity, we are still unable to take concrete action for climate change and that such a disaster has fallen upon us because of all of our collective failure. On the whole, The School of Life is an engaging, endearing, and enriching study in courage, which Ernest Hemingway defined-almost with K. Vasuki in mind-as ’grace under pressure’.<br/>Shashi Tharoor - Member of Lok Sabha<br/>Vasuki takes us on a rewarding journey of introspection and self-realisation that could help sow the seeds of a happier life and a more sustainable world. It’s a book for any and every one of us who are in search of the true meaning of life in its infinite dimensions.<br/>Rajdeep Sardesai - Journalist |
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Fiction |
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Lending |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |