THREE THOUSAND STITCHES - Sudha Murty
THREE THOUSAND STITCHES - Sudha Murty ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAORDINARY LIVES Book consists of 11 short stories of real life experiences of Chairperson of the Infosys Foundation. Three thousand stitches : writer wanted to help Devasasis to come out of their miserable life, but instead; those devadasis unwelcomed her with chappals and tomatoes, but after much efforts writer got successful to rescue and rehabilitate 3000 devadasis of Karnataka and in return those women gift her a unique gift - a quilt embroidered by each one of the women, i.e. with THREE THOUSAND STITCHES How to beat the boys : it's writers own story of her engineering college days. That time no girl used to go for these stream, but writer took admission as she was the only girl in that college, survived with taunts and problems faced by other students and finally completed the course. She had told that how this experience helped her in future. Food for thought : writer went to one of h