Out of Line - Softcover

Menon, Ritu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9353024056 ISBN 13: 9789353024055

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India, 2018

Synopsis

Nayantara Sahgal, born into the first family of Indian politics, is one of India's finest writers. Novelist, essayist, political commentator and memoirist, everything she wrote, whether political or literary, followed the evolution of democracy in post-Independence India. What connects Sahgal's fiction and non-fiction is politics; what propels her politics is the idea of India. The three strands of personal, political and literary are inextricably woven in her writing, and just as it is impossible to separate a writer's life from her text, Nayantara Sahgal cannot be read without reference to the political life of the country. Charged with stepping out of line in her political writing, Sahgal displayed a similar tendency in her personal life, risking both social disapproval and political displeasure. She carried on regardless. This literary, personal and political biography of this important writer, with a beautifully crafted Afterword, is a first, based on interviews, private papers and letters, first-hand information and archival research.`

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About the Author

RITU MENON is a feminist publisher and writer. She is the co-founder of Kali for Women and the founder of Women Unlimited. Among her published books are Borders & Boundaries: Women in India's Partition; Out of Line: A Literary and Political Biography of Nayantara Sahgal; Zohra!: A Biography in Four Acts; Address Book: A Publishing Memoir in the Time of COVID; Loitering with Intent: Diary of a Happy Traveller; and India on Their Minds: 8 Women, 8 Ideas of India. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2011.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9353024056
• ISBN 13: 9789353024055
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416