About the Book: Out of Line
Nayantara Sahgal, born into the first family of Indian politics, is one of
Indias finest writers. Novelist, essayist, political commentator and memoirist,
everything she wrote, whether political or literary, followed the evolution of
democracy in post-Independence India. What connects Sahgals fiction and
non-fiction is politics; what propels her politics is the idea of India. The
three strands of personal, political and literary are inextricably woven in her
writing, and just as it is impossible to separate a writers life from her text,
Nayantara Sahgal cannot be read without reference to the political life of the
country. Charged with stepping out of