Mr Das, whose career spanned the darkest and brightest eras in Indian economic policy, tells much of his story autobiographically.

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The biggest error the doubters make, Shapiro says, is to believe that dramatists and other authors in Shakespeare's day made a habit of autobiographically inserting themselves into their own works.

FORBES

Bennett made his pitch in the American style autobiographically.

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