autobiography
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From the memoir: Poet Akhtarul Iman on the conflict between Urdu writers’ groups in India
Akhtarul Iman Baidar Bakht
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‘My Life’: Ustad Allauddin Khan’s autobiography is occasionally impatient and always deeply human
Ipshita Mitra
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From the memoir: A Dalit woman writer on domestic violence, casteism, and emotional subjugation
Sushila Takbhaure Deeba Zafir Preeti Dewan
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In singer Bijoya Chaudhuri’s autobiography, a life in music through Sylhet, London, Bombay, Calcutta
Bijoya Chaudhuri Rosinka Chaudhuri
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From the memoir: Musician Ustad Allauddin Khan writes about his mentors and his life lessons
Ustad Allauddin Khan Hemasri Chaudhuri
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From the memoir: How a writer went looking for knowledge after life’s plans went awry
Namita Devidayal
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‘Mother Mary Comes To Me’: Arundhati Roy writes intimately of life with, and without, her mother
Sanghamitra Chakraborty
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‘A Glimpse of My Life’ by Ram Prasad Bismil: A moving autobiography of a young revolutionary
Salil Misra
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From the autobiography: What Ram Prasad Bismil wrote in secret about his life while on death row
Ram Prasad Bismil Awadhesh Tripathi
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From the autobiography: ‘Narmad’, a pioneer of modern Gujarati literature, recounts his childhood
Narmadashankar Dave Abhijit Kothari
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Hindi autobiography: An excerpt from ‘Diyasalai’, by Kailash Satyarthi
Kailash Satyarthi
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Translated Hindi autobiography: An excerpt from ‘Apne Hi Dhun Mein’, by Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond Prabhat Singh
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Pope Francis’s autobiography: We’ve never known so much about the pontiff before
Liam Temple, The Conversation
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In his autobiography, former cricketer Syed Kirmani recalls his first tour of England with the team
Syed Kirmani Debashish Sengupta Dakshesh Pathak
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Sushilkumar Shinde’s ‘Five Decades in Politics’: A revealing memoir of a Dalit’s life in politics
Shevlin Sebastian
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In her autobiography, Bangladeshi writer Noorjahan Bose remembers her mother’s skilful cooking
Noorjahan Bose Rebecca Whittington
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From the memoir: Lawyer Malavika Rajkotia traces her family history and the origins of her surname
Malavika Rajkotia
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Autobiography: KK Kochu, Dalit leader and founder of Communist Youth Front, remembers his childhood
KK Kochu Radhika P Menon
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From the autobiography: The founder of Kalyan Jewellers reflects on the pros of going ‘hyper-local’
TS Kalyanaraman
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Barbra Streisand’s autobiography ‘My Name is Barbra’ shows how she redefined the diva
Dominic Broomfield-McHugh, The Conversation