'Seldom does one get a chance to become acquainted with India's great leaders
through a young woman so intimately associated with them.'
-New York Times Book Review
A dramatic portrait of the spirit of sacrifice that carried India through the
years of the struggle for independence, this evocative memoir of an unusual
childhood ends with the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948. Nayantara
Sahgal describes what it was like growing up in Anand Bhavan, Allahabad, the
home of her parents shared with her maternal uncle, Jawarlal Nehru, during the
years when Gandhi was leading the movement for independence. It describes in
loving detail the lives of