Of a Certain Age: Twenty Life Sketches

01 September, 2011

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

Penguin Books India,

256 pages with 25 illustrations, R499

Icons such as Mahatma Gandhi, Jayaprakash Narayan, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, MS Subbulakshmi and Jyoti Basu were defined by the epoch in which they lived and which they, in turn, defined. This book celebrates 20 such individuals with charming biographical sketches, offering us little-known facts and vivid portrayals of vulnerabilities and strengths and touching upon the qualities that made them the stuff of legend.