Ravi Vedula’s childhood memoir of the colourful, chaotic Hyderabad of the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties delivers greater than vivid descriptions of native cricket heroes or an period of shared televisions.
“Hyderabad Days,” lately launched by 8080 Books, pays homage to resiliency, group and values. Vedula, company vice chairman of engineering for Microsoft’s IDEAS workforce, describes how the scramble for a number of rupees for a cricket ball turned a penchant for innovation. Childhood disputes fostered diplomatic expertise. Friendships defied class. It’s the story of how these joy-soaked years cast the instincts of an engineer and, later, the angle of a frontrunner.
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