“nayantara sahgal”

“the portrait’s painted eyes held whoever’s was looking into them from wherever the viewer sat…He was best remembered for the treason trial after the Great War and his defense of the sole survivor of the bloodbath below Victoria’s statue in Company Bagh that has killed his three co-conspir... More

This unusually prescient novel is set in the early post-Independence years, when a new republic eagerly looks forward to a future full of hope. Rakesh, a Foreign Service officer who had grown up at a time when young men were ardent nationalists, returns to Delhi after a six-year absence to find many... More

In this exchange of letters dating from an extremely turbulent period of their lives, Nayantara Sahgal and E.N. Mangat Rai, two very public figures who had remained at the same time intensely private, broke their self-imposed silence for the first time.When Relationship was first published in 1994, ... More

'Crazy about Mistaken Identity. I think it's absolutely brilliant…' --Harold Pinter The year is 1929, India is torn by strikes, and the British Raj is close to panic: Bhushan Singh, the purposeless son of a minor Raja is charged with treason and thrown into jail. As the months awaiting trial stre... More

‘She missed the sense of values Shivraj had planted like roses with his two hands. It was their fragrance, something as ephemeral as that, that had bound the country together in a unity, not any hidebound principle or rule from a book.’ Shivraj is dead and with him the values with which... More

‘India, once a uniform piece of territory to administer, was now a welter of separate, sensitive identities, resurrected after independence.’ As the quarrel over boundaries, water and electric power between Punjab and the newly created Haryana intensifies, Gyan Singh, the chief minister... More

Written over a period of thirty-eight years, this collection of letters between Jawaharlal Nehru and his sister VijayaLakshmi Pandit is significant as much for its historical content as for itsliterary value. The letters reveal the joys and trials of a family immersed inthe struggle for India's Inde... More

A brilliant, unsparing novel about divorce and its implications in Indian society This is the story of Simrit, lost and bewildered as she struggles to cope with the emotional shock of a divorce plus a brutal divorce settlement inflicted on her. Ostracized, victimized and shackled by memories of the... More

For the eminent scientist Sir Nitin Basu, spending the summer of 1914 at a remote hill station in the Himalayas, the arrival of a single Danish woman – hired as his secretary by his sister didi – is as alarming as an invasion. Tall, fair, unconventional Miss Anna Hansen is a feminist, a woman ah... More

'Seldom does one get a chance to become acquainted with India's great leaders through a young woman so intimately associated with them.' -New York Times Book Review A dramatic portrait of the spirit of sacrifice that carried India through the years of the struggle for independence, this evocative ... More