Acknowledgments

We wish to thank many of our friends and mentors who encouraged us and gave us timely suggestions. The list includes, in no particular order, Alok Arora, Rashmi Prakash, Sanjay Mathur, Raj Rajen, Dina Bitton, Ramesh Balasubramaniam, Terence Smith, Chennagiri Jagadish, Kelly Luce, Divy Agrawal, Jean Jaiswal, Pranay Palni, and Jaak Tepandi.

We are exceedingly thankful to Amit’s father, Sri Ram Saran, for unselfishly giving his time for reviewing and proofreading the entire manuscript at short notice. His edits and comments were indeed invaluable to us.

No book is complete without drawings. We wanted ours to be illuminative, yet with a lighter note. Our special thanks to Leena Jacob for the artwork and creative metaphors she painstakingly ...

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