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  📍 Cloud Cuckoo Land shifts between Five characters—Konstance, Zeno, Seymour, Anna, and Omeir.  📍 Konstance, who has spent her entire life on a spaceship named The Argos, encounters some difficulties many years in the future.  📍 Zeno and Seymour, who are from Idaho, are struggling with life's losses in the present.  📍 In the year 1400, Anna and Omeir are engaged in combat in Constantinople. 📍 This book is undoubtedly fascinating. This book is a jumbled mess throughout, especially at first. Non-linear timeframes and five different individuals are alternated in Cloud Cuckoo Land. 📍 After reading about a character's life up to that point, the story may then transfer to another character's life at the beginning of a new era. I'm not unfamiliar with multiple points of view, but usually there are no more than three. There are 5 different people in this book. And then add fluctuating timelines on top of that. If I had been the editor, I would have organised the book ...

📍 This book serves as a useful resource for anyone interested in the development of the Indian economy after independence. The history of economic reform in India is the history of the country's efforts to end poverty and create wealth, jobs, healthcare, education, and prosperity. An economic policy lens is used to tell the story of Independent India. 📍 The party that ought to be praised for reforms is instead the book's most vocal opponent, and this is just the beginning of the contradictions within this group. 📍 The author had to go through the pain of remembering how we got to that point in time when reforms were imposed on the country and the financial, regulatory, and moral crisis was fixed in order to fully appreciate the significance of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao to India's economy. 📍 The book then discusses how political narratives of ideological entrapment led to India being forced into an economic policy regime that prioritised poverty reduction. 📍 Th...