One Foot on the Ground

One of the finest and most unusual autobiographies written in contemporary India. In this unusual extraordinary autobiography Shanta gokhale—writer translator and one of India’s most illuminating cultural commentators the arc of her life over eight decades through the progress of her body as it grows matures and begins to wind down. Starting with her birth in 1939—in philosophic silence till the doctor’s slap on her bottom made her bawl—she recounts her childhood youth and middle and old age in ...See More