Nayantara Sahgal

Nayantara Sahgal (born May 10, 1927) is the youngest daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and a well-regarded novelist in the English language. Her fiction deals with India's elite dealing with the crises related to political change.

Sahgal was educated in the United States at Wellesley College (B.A., 1947).

Books

• Prison and Chocolate Cake (novel; 1954)

• From Fear Set Free (novel; 1963)

• Time To Be Happy (novel; 1963)

• This Time of Morning (novel; 1965)

• Storm in Chandigarh (novel; 1969)

• Sunlight Surround You (1970) [with Rita Dar]

• The Day in Shadow (novel; 1971)

• Plans for Departure (novel; 1985)

• Rich Like Us (1985)