Prison and Chocolate Cake'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 ReviewA dramatic portrait of the spirit of sacrifice that carried India through the years of the struggle for independence, this evocative memoir of an unusual childhood ends with the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948. Nayantara Sahgal describes what it was like growing up in Anand Bhavan,

Even though I'm a classics girl at heart

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Soon afterward

the flattest kid on Earth

just in case

now updated to include changes in the tax code

and endlessly interested in outside opinions

or when they married

He also shares his experience of working closely with some of the architects of India's economic change: Manmohan Singh

The Westmorelands always get what they want

In the shadowy den of the kink club

Maya Scott has been trying to find her estranged stepbrother