From Third World to First

01 November, 2013

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Lee Kuan Yew

HarperCollins India

752 pages, Rs. 799

Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial trading post is a thriving Asian metropolis? The story of that transformation is told here by

Singapore’s charismatic, controversial founding

father, Lee Kuan Yew.

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