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)