# Off the Beaten Track

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- Book: [Off the Beaten Track](https://www.bookquiver.com/saeeda-bano/off-the-beaten-track) ([Off the Beaten Track.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/saeeda-bano/off-the-beaten-track.md))
- Authors: [Saeeda Bano](https://www.bookquiver.com/saeeda-bano)
- Publisher: india_penguin
- ISBN: 978-93-8593-299-1
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2020-10-01
- Language: en_IN
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Saeeda Bano was the first woman in India to work as a radio newsreader, known then and still as the doyenne of Urdu broadcasting. Over her unconventional and courageous life, she walked out of a suffocating marriage, witnessed the violence of Partition, lost her son for a night in a refugee camp, ate toast with Nehru and fell in love with a married man who would, in the course of their twenty-five-year relationship, become the Mayor of Delhi. Though she was born into privilege in Bhopal-the only Indian state to be ruled by women for four successive generations-her determination, independence and frankness make this a remarkable memoir and a crucial disruption in India’s understanding of her own past.