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Nayantara Sahgal (born 10 May 1927) is an Indian writer who writes in English. She is a member of the Nehru–Gandhi family, the second of the three daughters born to Jawaharlal Nehru's sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.
Nayantara Sahgal (born May 10, 1927, Allahabad [now Prayagraj], India) is an Indian journalist and novelist whose fiction presents the personal crises of India’s elite amid settings of political upheaval.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Rich Like Us is a historical and political fiction novel by Nayantara Sahgal. Set in New Delhi during the chaotic time between 1932 and the mid-1970s, it follows the lives of two female protagonists, Rose and Sonali, and their fight to live in a time of political upheaval and social re-organization.
- Uma Parameswaran, Nayantara Sahgal
- 1985
E' la storia di Simrit, una donna colta, emancipata e madre di molti figli, appartenente all'alta classe sociale indù, che deve confrontarsi con una svolta della sua vita, spezzata dal divorzio e dalle dure condizioni che questo le impone.
The choice facing Indians is stark, according to Sahgal – the niece of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and the creator of a series of novels in which the values of Gandhi and Nehru (who themselves continued a running debate throughout their lives) are fleshed out into human drama.
Nayantara Sahgal was born in 1927 in Allahabad. Her trigger to write was the fact that she had grown up during the years when Indians were fighting for freedom - a fight in which her entire family was involved: "It became the stuff of my fiction and non-fiction … my background and my values."
28 giu 2024 · NAYANTARA SAHGAL is the author of 9 novels, 7 non-fiction works, and wide-ranging literary and political commentary. Her latest work is a collection of short stories titled DAY OF RECKONING. She has received the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Sinclair Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
