{"product_id":"those-were-days-ashok-lahiri-9789355201331","title":"Those Were Days","description":"\u003cp\u003e The Finance Commission has played a critical role in India's federal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e structure since 1952. Every five years, this constitutional body produces a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e report recommending what share of the Union Government's divisible tax\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e pool should be devolved to the states, and how this aggregate should be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e distributed among the different states, among other recommendations on\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e fiscal governance. In between its appointment and submission of its Report, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e the Finance Commission tends to spend the intervening period in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e relative secrecy of internal discussions and state visits. Despite the excitement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e about the Commissions in the media, and among the public, leaders and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e bureaucrats in states, little is publicly known about the rich experiences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e that the members and staff of the Commission gain while visiting all the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e states of our large and diverse country, and their interpersonal interactions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Those Were the Days captures vignettes of such experiences of the 15th\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Finance Commission. It is a book not of history or economics or even\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e secret deliberations within the Commission, but one that captures the joys\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e of working as a team, a sense of discovery of the unity in diversity that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e is India and the great camaraderie that it enjoyed with leaders and civil\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e servants in the different states.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ashok Lahiri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9355201338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789355201331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rupa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/05\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ashok Lahiri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43992787288319,"sku":"9789355201331","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_79b5c032-1bde-4591-9ef8-3fb60e438f51.jpg?v=1683320793","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/those-were-days-ashok-lahiri-9789355201331","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}