autobiography
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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
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‘When will your sharia end?’ Canadian political leader Jagmeet Singh writes of a racist attack
Jagmeet Singh
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How Springdales schools founder Rajni Kumar started her first school with the Indian army in Kasauli
Rajni Kumar
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When Amrita Pritam wove her autobiography around love, she also demonstrated the many ways to love
Gayathri Prabhu
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From ‘Sorry yaar, really sorry’ to ‘Why don’t we get married?’: Shanta Gokhale’s memoir of her body
Shanta Gokhale
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Indian literature keeps waiting for the literary memoir as a form distinct from the autobiography
Gayathri Prabhu
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Why Judith Kerr’s beloved books for children must be read with her autobiographies
Eleanor Byrne, The Conversation
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Why autobiographies are the most potent books to challenge what is ‘normal’
Aakash Singh Rathore
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The Cost of Living
Scroll Staff