Off the Beaten Track - The Story of My Unconventional Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789385932991)

Saeeda Bano was the first woman in India to work as a radio newsreader, known then and still as the doyenne of Urdu broadcasting. Over her unconventional and courageous life, she walked out of a suffocating marriage, witnessed the violence of Partition, lost her son for a night in a refugee camp, ate toast with Nehru and fell in love with a married man who would, in the course of their twenty-five year-relationship, become the Mayor of Delhi. Though she was born into privilege in Bhopal the only Indian state to be ruled by women for four successive generations her determination, independence and frankness make this a remarkable memoir and a crucial disruption in India's understanding of her own past

Author: Saeeda Bano, Shahana Raza
ISBN-10: 9385932993
ISBN-13: 9789385932991
Publisher: Penguin Zubaan
Language: English
Published: 04/27/2022
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.67w x 1.02d