NEW TITLE AUGUST 2015 MEMOIR ISBN: 978-93-85285-06-6 `450/£10/$20 HB Published by Fine publishing within reach D-78, Okhla Industrial Area, Phase-I, New Delhi-110 020, INDIA Tel: 91-11-26816301, 49327000; Fax: 91-11-26810483, 26813830 email: [email protected]; website: www.niyogibooksindia.com MEMOIR `450/£10/$20 HB ISBN: 978-93-85285-06-6 Size:216 x 140mm, 208pp, 48 b/w photographs Black and white / 80gsm bookprint Hard Bound with dust jacket Krishna Bose was born Krishna Chaudhuri on 26 December 1930 in Dhaka, Born in Dhaka on 26 December to East Bengali parents settled in Calcutta. In December 1955 she married Sisir 1930, Krishna Bose (nee Kumar Bose, son of the barrister and nationalist leader Sarat Chandra Bose and Chaudhuri) taught English from nephew of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. She is a multifaceted personality—a 1955 to 1995 at a women’s college professor, writer, researcher, broadcaster, social worker and politician. of Calcutta, where she became the Principal. She joined politics in Lost Addresses is Krishna’s story of her childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. 1996 and was elected Member of Parliament (Lok It vividly describes Calcutta, Bengal and India in the 1930s and 1940s and the Sabha) three times from the Jadavpur constituency early years after Independence. Krishna’s memories of growing up and coming of in Greater Calcutta. From 1999 to 2004 she chaired age are set in the social, cultural and political milieus of the time. The East Bengal the parliamentary standing committee on external heritage and the life of the Calcutta intelligentsia at its prime feature prominently, affairs. Krishna’s late husband, Netaji Subhas Bose’s but this is no private nor provincial memoir. India and the world were then in great nephew Sisir Kumar Bose, was a freedom fighter ferment and transition. Krishna re-lives how she experienced World War II, the in his youth and later a renowned paediatrician. Quit India movement of 1942, the Bengal famine of 1943-44, the Red Fort trials Krishna has published many books in Bengali, and a of the Indian National Army (INA) officers in 1945-46, the Great Calcutta killings memoir of her political life in English. of 1946, and Partition and Independence in Delhi in 1947. Sumantra Bose is the youngest Illustrated with old photographs, this memoir is a valuable historical record, told of three children of Krishna and in flowing literary style. Sisir Bose. He is Professor of International and Comparative • Although autobiographical in form, this is not a conventional Politics at the London School of autobiography. It is a richly textured history of a tumultuous Economics and Political Science time during which India transitioned from colonialism to (LSE). Sumantra received his PhD from Columbia sovereignty. That story is told through the eyes of first a University, New York, in 1998. He is the author of little girl, then a teenager and finally a young woman. six books. • The book should interest readers of modern histories as well as autobiographies. • The book will appeal to young people for its gripping eyewitness narrative of the climactic years of the struggle for freedom, of Partition and Independence, and the early years after Independence..