Nayantara Sahgal is perhaps the only Indo-English woman novelist who is also a political columnist. Her newspaper articles are characterised by their topicality, simplicity and boldness. Nayantara Sahgal’s work ranges from factual and emotional autobiography to fictionalised autobiography. In her address to the colloquium at Radcliffe Institute she had this to say about the close link in her life and writings:
Research Scholar, Dept. of English, Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya