Nayantara Sahgal

Nayantara Sahgal ( born May 10, 1927) is an Indian writer and journalist, who was born a member of the Nehru - Gandhi family. Her mother was Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. Thus, Sahgal is a cousin of Indira Gandhi.

Sahgal is, like her mother, a sharp critic of Indira Gandhi. One of the first acts after its re-election in 1980 was the dismissal Sahgals as Ambassador of India to Italy. A year later appeared Sahgals very critical and sometimes polemical book Indira Gandhi: Her Road to Power.

In the novel, Sunlight Surrounds You Sahgal sets along with her sisters Chandralekha Mehta and Rita Dar her mother a monument.

In 1986 she was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award.

Publications

  • Prison and Chocolate Cake ( memories; 1954)
  • From Fear Set Free (novel, 1963)
  • Time To Be Happy (novel, 1963)
  • This Time of Morning (novel, 1965)
  • Storm in Chandigarh (novel, 1969)
  • Sunlight Surrounds You ( novel, 1970)
  • The Day in Shadow (novel, 1971)
  • Indira Gandhi: Her Road to Power ( nonfiction, 1982)
  • Plans for Departure (novel, 1985)
  • Mistaken Identity (novel, 1988)
  • A Situation in New Delhi (novel, 1989)
  • Lesser Breeds (novel, 2003)
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