Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Padma Desai

Editorial

Mehta Publishing House

Idioma

Maratí

N° páginas

254

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.6x14x1.5 cm

Peso

0.33 kg.

ISBN13

9789387789012

Categorías

Ficción: general y literaria

Bandh Mukta Hotana (en Maratí)

Padma Desai (Autor) · Mehta Publishing House · Tapa Blanda

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PADMA DESAI GREW UP IN THE 1930S IN THE PROVINCIAL WORLD OF SURAT, WHERE SHE HAD A SHELTERED AND STRICT UPBRINGING IN A TRADITIONAL GUJARATI ANAVIL BRAHMIN FAMILY. HER ACADEMIC BRILLIANCE WON HER A SCHOLARSHIP TO BOMBAY UNIVERSITY, WHERE THE FIRST HEADY TASTE OF FREEDOM IN THE BIG CITY LED TO TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES SEDUCTION BY A FELLOW STUDENT WHOM SHE WAS THEN COMPELLED TO MARRY. IN A FAILED ATTEMPT TO END THIS DISASTROUS FIRST MARRIAGE, SHE CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY. A SCHOLARSHIP TO AMERICA IN 1955 LAUNCHED HER ON HER LONG JOURNEY TO LIBERATION FROM THE BURDENS AND CONSTRAINTS OF HER LIFE IN INDIA, WITH A GROWING SELF-AWARENESS AND TRANSFORMATION AT MANY LEVELS, AS SHE MADE A NEW LIFE FOR HERSELF, MET AND MARRIED THE CELEBRATED ECONOMIST JAGDISH BHAGWATI, BECAME A MOTHER, AND ROSE TO ACADEMIC EMINENCE AT HARVARD AND COLUMBIA. HOW DID SHE NAVIGATE THE TUMULTUOUS ROAD TO ASSIMILATION IN AMERICAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE? AND WHAT DID SHE RETAIN OF HER INDIAN UPBRINGING IN THE PROCESS? THIS BRAVE AND MOVING MEMOIR, WRITTEN WITH A NOVELIST S SKILL AT EVOKING PERSONALITIES, PLACES AND ATMOSPHERE, AND A SCHOLAR S INSIGHTS INTO CULTURE AND SOCIETY, COMMUNITY AND FAMILY.