Author Series 23
Nayantara Sahgal (1927- )
* Indian writer in English. Her fiction deals with Indian’s elite responding to the crises engendered by political change.
* She is a member of Nehru-Gandhi family, the second of the three daughters born to Jawahar Lal Nehru’s sister Vijya Laxmi Pandit.
* She was awarded the 1986 Sahitya Akademi Award for English for her novel Rich Like Us (1985).
* On 6 Oct 2015, she returned her Sahitya Akademi Award to protest what she called “Increasing intolerance and supporting right to dissent in the Country”.
Important Works
1. Rich Like Us (1985)
* A historical and political fiction novel.
* Set in New Delhi during the chaotic time
between 1932 and the mid 1970’s.
* It follows the lives of two female protagonists Rose and Sonali and their fight to live in a time of a political upheaval and social re-organization.
2. Prison and Chocolate Cake: A Time to be Happy (Memoir; 1954)
* It is the fascinating memoir of Sahgal that talks about India and her struggle for Independence from point of a view of a young woman.
3. Relationship; Collection of letter between Sahgal & E.N. (her husband) Mangat Raj.
4. Before Freedom: Nehru’s Letter to his Sister (edited by Nayantara Sehgal).
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