TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bano, Saeeda
TI  - Off the beaten track: the story of my unconventional life 
SN  - 9789385932991
U1  - 791.4409 BAN-S 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - India
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Aḥmad, Saʻīdah Bāno
KW  - Authors, Urdu
N1  - 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
ER  -