Writer, educationist and three-time Lok Sabha MP from Kolkata, Krishna Bose
gives a compelling account of her journey from the time she was a schoolgirl
witnessing some of the tragic scenes that accompanied Partition to her stint as
chairperson of the Parliamentary standing committee on external affairs.
Married into the family of Subhas Chandra Bose, her acute yet sympathetic
observations in An Outsider in Politics illuminate the changing world of the
Kolkata intelligentsia from the 1940s to the present day. She writes vividly of
her experiences as an academic and a working mother and gives a ringside view of
the drama of election campaigns, the complexities of