ONE LIFE IS ENOUGH

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Every person has a story. That story will often feature a village and in that village, a home. My story, being no different, starts with my village, Chamtha...[which] stands at the sangam-the confluence-of four districts: Patna, Samasthipur, Begusarai and Vaishali.' Anjani Kumar Singh's memoir begins with these lines. In the pages that follow, we witness a remarkable life unfolding-a life that is a'sangam' of tradition and modernity, of formal education and lessons learnt through encounters with the diverse worlds of Bihar and India, of professional commitment and personal conviction, of public service and private passions.Together with fascinating insights about the challenges and satisfactions of governance and development work, Singh also shares his experiences of travelling across India and abroad, building one of the world's finest collections of rare plants, and- his shining achievement-setting up the splendid Bihar Museum, a home for both classical and contemporary South Asian art, which compares with the best in the world. This book is among the most engaging and unusual memoirs of a public servant you will read.