About the Book: Lost Addresses: A Memoir of India 1934-1955
Krishna Bose was born Krishna Chaudhuri on 26 December 1930 in Dhaka, to East
Bengali parents settled in Calcutta. In December 1955 she married Sisir Kumar
Bose, son of the barrister and nationalist leader Sarat Chandra Bose and nephew
of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. She is a multifaceted personality—a professor,
writer, researcher, broadcaster, social worker and politician. Lost Addresses is
Krishnas story of her childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. It vividly
describes Calcutta, Bengal and India in the 1930s and 1940s and the early years
after Independence. Krishnas memories of growing up and coming of age