Prison and Chocolate Cake

• Nayantara Sahgal recalls growing up in Anand Bhavan, surrounded by important figures of India’s freedom struggle, including her uncle Jawaharlal Nehru

• Nayantara Sahgal is an Indian writer and novelist, known for her fiction, political writing and memoirs. She was closely connected with the Nehru family.

The memoir describes Sahgal’s childhood during the years of India’s struggle for independence. It presents family life, sacrifice, political activity and her personal memories of Jawaharlal Nehru, concluding with the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948