This vivid memoir recounts the experience of Shudha Mazumdar, a woman born at the turn of the century to Indian parents whose ideas on child rearing differed greatly. Her father, a wealthy Europeanized Zamindar, tried to instill Western values, while Shudha's mother emphasized the traditional, even going as far as arranging a marriage for her daughter when she was thirteen. Although true to Indian traditions, Shudha eventually manifested her father's influence by becoming a published writer, by becoming a member of a number of social service organizations, and by serving as the Indian Delegate to the International Labour Organization.
Mazumdar was born at the turn of the century to parents whose ideas on child-rearing differed greatly, her father being a westernized liberal and her mother a traditionalist. This memoir relates, how under her father's influence, she became a writer and a notable figure in the social services.
