Off the Beaten Track: The Story of My Unconventional Life
- ISBN-10
- 9385932993
- ISBN-13
- 9789385932991
- Series
- Off the Beaten Track
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Publisher
- Zubaan Books
- Author
- Saeeda Bano
Description
Saeeda Bano was the first woman in India to work as a radio newsreader, and she is still known as the doyenne of Urdu broadcasting. Over her unconventional and courageous life, Bano 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 provide a unique and crucial disruption in India's understanding of the past. Translated from Urdu by Bano's granddaughter, Off the Beaten Track is a frank and brave memoir about the remarkable life of a single woman in mid-twentieth-century India.
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Other editions
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- 2004
- 144 pages
- Paperback
- National Portrait Gallery
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