Lata, say hello to Uncle Sahgal.
Written by Nayantara Sahgal.
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RSS government' will never recognise progressive writers: Nayantara Sahgal.
Marriage: She was married to Colonel Prem Kumar Sahgal in 1947 and had a daughter with him.
The army action in East Pakistan, wrote Ikram Sahgal, editor of Pakistan' s Defence Journal
in March 1998," was professionally correct and it was carried out with surgical precision.
In 1942, during the surrender of Singapore by the British to the Japanese, Sahgal aided wounded prisoners of war,
many of whom were interested in forming an Indian independence army.
In a press release, Ramakant Kolte, working president of the Literary Meet's Reception Committee, said that the organisers had“taken cognizance of the threat given by a political outfit” and
had cancelled Sahgal's invitation“to avoid any untoward incident from those threatening to derail the event”.
The contrast between the idealism at the beginning of India's independence and the moral decline of post-Nehru India that is particularly evident in A Situation in New Delhi(1977)
recurs in such Sahgal novels as Rich like Us(1985),
which confronts civil disorder, corruption, and oppression while detailing the internal conflicts in a businessman's family.