Off the Beaten Track

The Story of My Unconventional Life

By: Saeeda Bano, Shahana Raza (Translator)

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Hardcover | 15 December 2021 | Edition Number 1

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280 Pages

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Saeeda Bano was the first woman in India to work as a radio newsreader, and she is still known as the doyenne of Urdu broadcasting. Over her unconventional and courageous life, Bano walked out of a suffocating marriage, witnessed the violence of Partition, lost her son for a night in a refugee camp, ate toast with Nehru, and fell in love with a married man who would, in the course of their twenty-five year-relationship, become the Mayor of Delhi. Though she was born into privilege in Bhopalâ"the only Indian state to be ruled by women for four successive generationsâ"her determination, independence, and frankness provide a unique and crucial disruption in Indiaâs understanding of the past. Translated from Urdu by Banoâs granddaughter, Off the Beaten Track is a frank and brave memoir about the remarkable life of a single woman in mid-twentieth-century India.

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