{"id":16515,"date":"2024-03-31T23:03:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T23:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cwpj.org\/?p=677"},"modified":"2024-03-31T23:03:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T23:03:35","slug":"wise-otherwise-by-sudha-murthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/?p=16515","title":{"rendered":"Wise &#038; Otherwise by Sudha Murthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cwpj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-678\" src=\"http:\/\/cwpj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image001-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"image001\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you see the cover of the book, you see an innocent lady and a dove. The innocent lady is staring at a landscape. Sudha Murthy\u2019s \u201cWise &amp; Otherwise\u201d is dedicated to all the shirtless people of India. The book is a compilation of 51 stories which are real life experiences of Mrs. Murthy that she gathered when she was travelling across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Every story of the book is of 3 to 4 pages and is inspired from real life incidents which she encountered during her travels.The author has travelled a lot so these stories are not restricted to one geographical region although most of them are from rural areas of India. Many stories in the book leave a deep impact on you.<\/p>\n<p>One of the stories is about a man leaving his father in an old age home. The stories in the book reflect the state of the society. In one of the stories, there is a discussion between two marriage brokers regarding the impact of the growth of IT sector on their business. There is a story of a beggar who moves to an area devastated by earthquake to take advantage of the rehabilitation being provided there.<\/p>\n<p>Through the words of the wife of Indian IT czar N.R. Narayana Murthy, we get to see the real picture of India.<\/p>\n<p>Urvi Dani<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you see the cover of the book, you see an innocent lady and a dove. The innocent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}