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Plans for Departure

NAYANTARA SAHGAL

Penguin Books, Ltd.

A brilliant, unsparing novel about divorce and its implications in indian society this is the story of simrit, lost and bewildered as she struggles to cope with the emotional shock of a divorce plus a brutal divorce settlement inflicted on her ostracized, victimized and shackled by memories of the past, her only bridge to a new life is raj, a brilliant, rising member of parliament the day in shadow can be read at several levels it is about simrit, who emerges from the shadows to find happiness with raj it is the story of raj, who passionately believes in freedom and refuses to accept fate as the answer to human problems and, finally, it is the story of delhi on the threshold of momentous changes, and a new breed of politicians far removed from everything gandhi stood for

Day In Shadow,The [Jul 26, 2011] Sahgal, Nayantara

Penguin books.India

She missed the sense of values shivraj had planted like roses with his two hands it was their fragrance, something as ephemeral as that, that had bound the country together in a unity, not any hidebound principle or rule from a book' shivraj is dead and with him the values with which he had governed the country for over a decade while his successors destroy the idealistic world he had built, shivraj's circle of intimate friends-his sister devi, the education minister; usman ali, vice chancellor of delhi university; and michael calvert, an english writer-struggle to find order in the chaos, even as rishad, devi's son, loses himself in it juxtaposing the conflict of personal relationships with the larger canvas of corrupt politics in a situation in new delhi, nayantara sahgal masterfully weaves a tale that grips the reader from start to finish a brilliant and provocative piece of fact-based fiction'-financial times a moving, even inspiring novel'-sunday times

Situation In New Delhi,A

Literature & Fiction

Penguin India

Storm In Chandigarh

Jawaharlal Nehru [Paperback] NAYANTARA SAHGAL

Penguin??Books

The lives of two very different New Delhi women are traced from the period following Indira Gandhi's declaration of the Emergency through to each woman's discovery that power and riches are useless substitutes for love

Rich Like Us

British & Irish

Sceptre

A story of the India of Mrs Gandhi's Emergency, when power becomes arbitrary once more, when the corrupt and the opportunists flourish. It is also a story of an older India, of a generation who remember the British Raj and Partition, of the continuities and the ties of family, caste and religion.

Rich like us

William Heinemann, Ltd.

New Delhi, one month after the declaration of the Emergency, is the setting for this novel, an ironic, tender and exquisitely crafted study of India and its people in the aftermath of Independence. Included is many individual histories, and many voices, in one - a compelling and vivid tapestry of India's past and present. Above all it is the story of Rose the Cockney memsahib, a family that neither wants nor welcomes her. In Nayantara Sahgal's tale, with its humour and tragedy, is mirrored some of the grandeur and folly of the Indian experience itself.

Contemporary

HarperCollins India

Novel spans the time of 30 plus years in India during the revolt against British rule as told through the eyes of a school teacher.

Lesser Breeds

Harpercollins

For the eminent scientist Sir Nitin Basu, spending the summer of 1914 at a remote hill station in the Himalayas, the arrival of a single Danish woman hired as his secretary by his sister didi is as alarming as an invasion. Tall, fair, unconventional Miss Anna Hansen is a feminist, a woman ahead of her times, enjoying a year of travel before her marriage to an English diplomat. Before her short stay in Himapur is over, she will have come dangerously close to loving another man, stumbled on the evidence, she believes, of a secret crime, and been shaken by a violet and mysterious death.  Making up the small European community in Himapur are the missionary Marlowe Croft, a bullying, obsessive man determined at all costs to build a Christian church in the hills; his shrill, foolish wife Lulu, the chief obstacle to his mission; and the district Magistrate Henry Brewster, an enigmatic figure, ill-at-ease with the imperial authority he represents. Deserted by his wife Stella, for whom ge gave up his dreams of a new political life in England, he is still consumed with love for her. Anna s fascination with rewster, her involvement in India s growing political unrest, lead her to reconsider her future, but a horrific accident and a startling find in a forest glade make it impossible for her to stay. Tormented by unanswered questions, Anna makes her plans for departure, as the intimate tragedies of Himapur are swept away by the cataclysm of war.  Plans for Departure is both a love story and mystery, set in a continent poised for revolution and a world on the edge of war. Nayantara Sahgal has a written a new novel of haunting power and superb craftsmanship, rich in intrigue, gentle humour and exquisite observation....

HarperCollins, Publishers

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Plans for Departure

Day In Shadow,The [Jul 26, 2011] Sahgal, Nayantara

Situation In New Delhi,A

Storm In Chandigarh

Jawaharlal Nehru [Paperback] NAYANTARA SAHGAL

Rich Like Us

Rich like us

Rich Like Us

Lesser Breeds

Plans for Departure