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Beautifully evoking the sights and sounds, rituals and routines of town and countryside, Nirad Chaudhuri's memoir begins with his childhood in turn-of-the-century Bengal. He then leads the reader through the labyrinth of Calcutta, charting the course of a political and moral education that... read more

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KISHORGANJ, my birthplace, I have called a country town, but this description, I am afraid, will call up wholly wrong associations.

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