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Rupa Publications India WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS A Schoolmaster’s Memoirs by Dev Lahiri
In this tellall memoir, Dev Lahiri, the erstwhile headmaster of prestigious institutions such as Lawrence School, Lovedale, and Welham Boys’ School, Dehradun, who has also served as Housemaster at Doon School, Dehradun, lays bare remarkable events from his illustrious career that was also riddled with controversies Lahiri evokes his childhood and university days as a backdrop to the unusual choices he made in his life He then describes how, along with the huge fulfilment that came with engaging with young minds in his profession, he also had to face the vicissitudes of having to deal with vested interests, statusquo upholders and entitled parents