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Nayantara Sahgal: A Life of Grace, Courage, and Elegant Defiance

Imagine a young girl growing up in the shadow of India’s freedom struggle, where prison visits to her father felt like adventures, complete with chocolate cake smuggled in by sympathetic British jailers. That girl was Nayantara Pandit, born on May 10, 1927, in Allahabad (now Prayagraj), the second daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit—India’s first woman […]