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Prison and Chocolate Cake

By Nayantara Sahgal

 450.00 inclusive of all taxes

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About the book

‘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, Allahabad, the home of her parents shared with her maternal uncle, Jawarlal Nehru, during the years when Gandhi was leading the movement for independence. It describes in loving detail the lives of a family for whom the country’s fight for freedom was more important than anything else, certainly coming before comfort and riches.The book is particularly delightful for its picture of Nehru who springs from these pages as a man of friendly humanity and a joy in life that made him a beloved uncle, yet with an inborn greatness that inspired awe and admiration in the little girl who played with him.’She is brilliant…complex and questioning.’ – Pearl S. Buck

Pages: 256

Available in: Paperback

Language: English

Nayantara Sahgal

Nayantara Sahgal is the author of nine novels, ten works of non-fiction and wide-ranging literary and political commentary. She has received the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Sinclair Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. A resident of Dehra Dun, she has been awarded the Doon Ratna. In 2009, she received Zee TV’s Awadh Samman.

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