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Writer, educationist and three-time Lok Sabha MP from Kolkata, Krishna Bose gives a compelling account of her journey from the time she was a schoolgirl witnessing some of the tragic scenes that accompanied Partition to her stint as chairperson of the Parliamentary standing committee on external affairs./pbrpMarried into the family of Subhas Chandra Bose, her acute yet sympathetic observations in iAn Outsider in Politics/i illuminate the changing world of the Kolkata intelligentsia from the 1940s to the present day. She writes vividly of her experiences as an academic and a working mother and gives a ringside view of the drama of election campaigns, the complexities of parliamentary politics and the forces shaping India?s foreign policy at the turn of the new millennium./pbrpThis understated but elegantly written memoir combines intimate family and social history with a gripping political memoir./p p/p
