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Hard-cover • 2016
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9789332703827
US$29.95
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Academic Foundation

Life Was Like That Only

Prabeen Singh

About the Book

<p>A child of the 1950s, Prabeen Singh belongs to the earliest generation of newly independent India, led by visionary leaders who dreamt of creating a .utopian state for its citizens. Brought up in a Sikh family intricately connected with the politics of the time, for whom tradition and liberalism existed side by side, she learnt self-reliance early from holidays spent at Master Tara Singh’s home, and civility and elegance from her mother and her aunts.&nbsp;</p> <p><br /> This heady account of the trajectory of her growth, records episodes from her life with a tint of wicked humour, interlinked with historic events, where the ups and downs of the Indian state are described from her completely personal encounter with some landmark developments. It is a charming and informative account of a strongly independent person who has lived life at many conflicting levels.</p>

About the Author(s) / Editor(s)

Prabeen Singh, who lives in Delhi, has had a varied career and many incarnations: a vocation in the women’s movement, starting out as an activist in Saheli; as a development consultant, working with international agencies and later in the field of HIV/AIDS in North-East India; as a founder-member of the artisans’ collective Dastkar; and as writer of a newspaper column on etiquette and food. Her current avatar is as a cook, teaching cooking classes in Delhi and conducting demonstrations/lectures for groups visiting India and seeking an insight into Indian food and culture. Well known for her personal style and hospitality, Prabeen Singh has written and lectured on aspects of Indian cuisine and appeared on India’s top lifestyle channel NDTV Food. This is her first book.

Contents in Detail

Preface

Acknowledgements

    1.    Jamshedpur
    2.    Dislocation and Fresh Moorings
    3.    Family, Amritsar, and New Awakenings
    4.    A New Home, New Friends, and New Vistas
    5.    Sombre Times and the India-China War
    6.    High Jinks and a Nurturing Environment
    7.    Tussles for Succession, the Indo-Pak War of 1965,
           and the Punjab Imbroglio
    8.    College, Gaiety, Naxalism, and the High Life
    9.    Foreign Shores: Baghdad
    10.    Echoes of War
    11.    Marriage, Motherhood, Parenting
    12.    The Emergency
    13.    Growth of Civil Liberty and
             Women’s Organizations
    14.    Janata Party, Pant Nagar,
             Billa-Ranga, Suresh Ram
    15.    The Asian Games and the Changing Face of Delhi
    16.    Delhi in Flames
    17.    Rajiv Gandhi
    18.    Amidst the Cultural Mainstream
    19.    Nine Green Bottles and the Janata Dal
    20.    Elections Yet Again and
             Rajiv Gandhi’s Assassination
    21.    The Economic Revolution and Babri Masjid
    22.    Whither Now

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