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The loss of her mother and the quest for perfection took photographer Zakia Shakir around the world several times in search of men who inspire India. In this marvellous book, we see larger-than-life public figures in their personal spaces: unusual glimpses of Vijendra Singh, Vikram Seth, Akshay Kumar, APJ Abdul Kalam, Sam Pitroda, Zakir Hussain, Zubin Mehta, Deepak Chopra, Lakshmi Mittal, Mukesh Ambani, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Abhinav Bindra, Kapil Dev, Fareed Zakaria, AR Rahman, Sachin Tendulkar, Gulzar, Desh Deshpande, MF Husain, Leander Paes, P Chidambaram, Prannoy Roy, Amartya Sen, Sonu Shivdasan, SH Raza, Narain Karthikeyan, Aamir Khan, Ronnie Screwvala, Pt Ravi Shankar, Om Puri, Omar Abdullah, Vinod Dham, NR Narayana Murthy, Harsha Bhogle, Deepak Chopra, Hrithik Roshan, Mahesh Bhupathi, Jeev Milkha Singh, RK Pachauri, Kamal Haasan, Ashok Amritraj, Shashi Tharoor, Shekhar Kapur, Rajdeep Sardesai, Sabeer Bhatia, Pradeep Dhoot, Vinod Khosla, Naseeruddin Shah, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. A veritable collector’s tome.