Off the beaten track : the story of my unconventional life /
Bano, Saeeda
Off the beaten track : the story of my unconventional life / Saeeda Bano - India Penguin Books 2020 - 268 p.
Saeeda Bano was the first woman in India to work as a radio newsreader, known then and still as the doyenne of Urdu broadcasting. Over her unconventional and courageous life, she walked out of a suffocating marriage, witnessed the violence of Partition, lost her son for a night in a refugee camp, ate toast with Nehru and fell in love with a married man who would, in the course of their twenty-five-year relationship, become the Mayor of Delhi. Though she was born into privilege in Bhopal-the only Indian state to be ruled by women for four successive generations-her determination, independence and frankness make this a remarkable memoir and a crucial disruption in India's understanding of her own past.
9789385932991
Aḥmad, Saʻīdah Bāno
Authors, Urdu
791.4409 BAN-S
Off the beaten track : the story of my unconventional life / Saeeda Bano - India Penguin Books 2020 - 268 p.
Saeeda Bano was the first woman in India to work as a radio newsreader, known then and still as the doyenne of Urdu broadcasting. Over her unconventional and courageous life, she walked out of a suffocating marriage, witnessed the violence of Partition, lost her son for a night in a refugee camp, ate toast with Nehru and fell in love with a married man who would, in the course of their twenty-five-year relationship, become the Mayor of Delhi. Though she was born into privilege in Bhopal-the only Indian state to be ruled by women for four successive generations-her determination, independence and frankness make this a remarkable memoir and a crucial disruption in India's understanding of her own past.
9789385932991
Aḥmad, Saʻīdah Bāno
Authors, Urdu
791.4409 BAN-S