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Gita Sahgal (born 1956 or 1957) [2] [3] is a British writer, journalist, film director, and women's rights and human rights activist, whose work focusses on the issues of feminism, fundamentalism and racism. [4] [5] She has been a co-founder and active member of women's organisations. [1] [6] She has also been head of Amnesty International 's ...
Oct 6, 2015 · On Monday, acclaimed writer Nayantara Sahgal announced that she would be returning the Sahitya Akademi Award she won in 1986 for her novel Rich Like Us.. Her gesture, she said, was a protest ...
The very first reading of A Time to be Happy (1958) is a sheer delight. Warm-hearted, human, full of the very feeling of life, Mrs. Sahgal's first novel has—in richer, more mature and thoughtful form—-the winning qualities of her popular auto. biographical narrative—Prison and Chocolate Cake.
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.
Nayantara Sahgal is acclaimed as the only political novelist, at least among women writers. As A. V. Krishna Rao observes, “Nayantara Sahgal is perhaps one of our best socio-political novelists today.”1 She confines her novels to the affluent society involved in politics.
Jan 3, 2015 · About Nayantara Sahgal. She is the author of nine novels, eight non-fiction works, a collection of short stories, and wide-ranging political and literary commentary. She has received the Sahitya ...
Nayantara Sahgal is the author of several works of fiction and non-fiction, the first of which, Prison and Chocolate Cake, an autobiography, was published in 1954. Her works include classic novels such as Rich Like Us, Plans for Departure and Lesser Breeds. She has received the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Sinclair Prize and the Commonwealth ...
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