In Search of Freedom - An Unfinished Journey

Author: Manikuntala SenTranslator: StreePublisher: StreeYear: 2001Language: EnglishPages: 310ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185604266 DescriptionThis memoir, 'Shediner Katha', which appeared in Bengali nearly two decades ago, has been translated for the first time in English so that a wider readership may know about the life of a remarkable woman.Manikuntala Sen's memoir, 'Shediner Katha', which appeared in Bengali nearly two decades ago, has been translated for the first time into English so that a wider readership may know about the life of a remarkable woman. Coming from a conservative upper caste, middle class family, she broke free of familial and social bonds to reach out to a cause. As she says, 'The dream of socialism was in the air and the young shared it'. That dream was to propel her to play a significant role in the tumultuous history of her time, the 1930s to the early 1960s. Beginning her political journey as a young college student, she soon became a full-time member of t