The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk

Over the years, Sudha Murthy has come across some fascinating people whose lives make for interesting stories and have astonishing lessons to reveal. Thake Vishnu, who achieves every material success but never knows happiness; or Venkat, who talks so much that he has no time to listen. In other stories, a young girl goes on a train journey that changes her life forever; an impoverished village women provides bathing water to hundreds of people in a drought-stricken area; a do-gooder ghost decides to teach a disconsolate young man Sanskrit; and in the title story, a woman in a flooded village in Odisha teaches the author a life lesson she will never forget. From the bestselling author of Wise and Otherwise and The old Man and His God this is another heart-warmimg collection of real-life stories that will delight readers of all ages.