We Are Our Future

In We Are Our Future, Ganguly relives the highs and lows of his career with Hindustan Lever, the multinational that introduced branded goods to India. Joining the company as a researcher, he rose through the ranks to become chairman, smoothly transitioning from R&D to management.Ganguly describes the complex dance between government and industry that characterised the post-Independence years, his interactions with Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Pranab Mukherjee, Manmohan Singh and various others in government. There are moments of levity too, such as the time he caught a mill- worker union leader from Bombay coming out of an upmarket jeweller's in London, and the day he unintentionally upstaged a Congress trade union leader by standing firm in his decision to not allow him to bring his armed bodyguards into the factory premises.