{ "item_title" : "Philanthropist", "item_author" : [" Hem Raj Sharma Jayalwal "], "item_description" : "PHILANTHROPISTWHAT REMAINS AFTER FORTUNE FADESPHILANTHROPIST - What Remains after Fortune Fades is a sweeping literary and philosophical novel that examines the uneasy relationship between wealth, morality, power, and responsibility in the modern world.At the centre of the story is Arvind Rao, one of India's most influential industrialists-a billionaire whose empire spans infrastructure, energy, technology, and philanthropy. To the public, he is celebrated as a visionary entrepreneur and humanitarian. His foundations build hospitals, schools, and water projects across the country. Governments praise him. The media glorifies him. Society treats him as proof that success and goodness can coexist.But beneath the polished image lies another reality.When a violent incident connected to one of Rao Global's industrial projects exposes hidden exploitation, corruption, environmental destruction, and systemic negligence, Arvind's carefully controlled life begins to unravel. What initially appears to be a public relations crisis slowly becomes a moral collapse. For the first time, he is forced to confront the human consequences of the systems that made his fortune possible.As Arvind journeys through forgotten villages, drought-stricken regions, failing institutions, and communities shaped by corporate power, he encounters people whose lives exist far beyond the insulated walls of wealth. A rural activist named Fatima becomes one of the few people willing to challenge him without fear or admiration. Through her, Arvind begins to understand that charity alone cannot repair systems built on inequality and distance.The novel follows his transformation from celebrated philanthropist to deeply conflicted observer of his own legacy. He dismantles parts of his empire, redistributes control, and steps away from centralised authority, believing accountability requires more than public generosity. Yet the further he moves from power, the more complicated the idea of redemption becomes.The book explores how institutions behave after power is decentralised. Hospitals continue functioning without founders. Villages learn to govern themselves. Schools survive without donor identities. But alongside these hopeful transformations come instability, fragmentation, and new forms of uncertainty. The story refuses simple answers. It asks whether systems can truly become ethical when they depend on exceptional individuals to correct them.In later chapters, the narrative expands beyond Arvind himself into broader social and philosophical territory. Through case studies, institutional failures, governance experiments, and The Theory of No Centre, the novel examines how societies organise responsibility, how systems collapse, and how continuity survives after authority dissolves.Themes of memory, accountability, dependency, structural violence, and distributed power run throughout the novel. Rather than presenting philanthropy as heroic salvation, the book questions whether large-scale generosity sometimes masks the deeper harm caused by concentrated wealth and control.Written in lyrical prose with reflective depth, PHILANTHROPIST combines literary fiction, political philosophy, and social realism into a profound meditation on what remains after success loses its certainty.Ultimately, this is not merely the story of one billionaire's downfall. It is a story about the systems humanity builds, the people those systems forget, and the uncomfortable truth that no society can remain just if its survival depends on a single powerful individual.The novel leaves readers with a haunting question:What remains when power is no longer owned but shared-and who carries responsibility then?", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/819/856/9798198561212_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "13.00", "online_price" : "13.00", "our_price" : "13.00", "club_price" : "13.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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