autobiography
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‘One Among You’ offers a view of MK Stalin’s journey towards leadership though his own eyes
Nikhil Sanjay-Rekha Adsule
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Environmentalist Chandi Prasad Bhatt recalls the 1970 catastrophic floods in the Alaknanda river
Chandi Prasad Bhatt
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From the autobiography: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on how he got his name
MK Stalin AS Panneerselvan
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How former Chief Election Commissioner TN Seshan began changing the way elections are held in India
TN Seshan
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‘Zikr’: Muzaffar Ali’s memoir explores cinema, poetry, art, politics, and cultural confluences
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
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One of the first Indian women to receive an English education recalls her 1878 balloon ride in Paris
Dosebai Cowasjee Jessawalla
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‘Insatiable’: Shobhaa Dé’s memoir starts with the pandemic but moves fearlessly to the political
Saloni Sharma
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How autofiction turns the personal into the political
Frances Egan, The Conversation Beth Kearney, The Conversation
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Saulat Abbas’s memoir: An authentic journey of a life from a UP village to Europe and Saudi Arabia
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
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From the autobiography: Savita Ambedkar recalls her first meeting with future husband BR Ambedkar
Savita Ambedkar
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‘Terra Viva’: Vandana Shiva’s memoirs guide us through her ecofeminism and food sovereignty activism
Vandana Shiva
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How diamond tycoon Govind Dholakia made his first ever trade at the age of twenty-two
Govind Dholakia
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From Farrukh Dhondy’s memoir: A blow hot blow cold encounter with VS Naipaul
Farrukh Dhondy
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Girish Karnad’s memoirs are a revelation even to those who already know of his genius
Arundhati Ghosh
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Ved Mehta (1934-2020) on how life changed after losing his vision at the age of three-and-a-half
Ved Mehta
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‘A Promised Land’: Barack Obama’s memoir reveals how he tempered his idealism with pragmatism
Kshirin Rao Eshwara
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What led economist Meghnad Desai to Leftist ideology and to the Labour Party in the UK?
Meghnad Desai
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Why and how Jaswant Singh (1938-2020) left the Indian Army so that he could join politics
Jaswant Singh
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From Taslima Nasrin’s memoir ‘My Girlhood’: What happened when her brother married a Hindu woman
Taslima Nasrin
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How former Mumbai police commissioner Rakesh Maria arrested Sanjay Dutt and got him to confess
Rakesh Maria