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The autobiography Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha by Dalit woman writer Shantabai Kamble, the protagonist of the story, Naja, bears the brunt of class, caste and gender. Naja is from the Mahar caste, one of the biggest Dalit communities in Maharashtra. [8] [9] [10] It is a poignant story of Dalit women's struggles in India. The book, which was ...
Saint Augustine of Hippo wrote Confessions, the first Western autobiography ever written, around 400.Portrait by Philippe de Champaigne, 17th century.. An autobiography, [a] sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life, providing a personal narrative that reflects on the author's experiences, memories, and insights.
An autobiographical comic (also autobio, graphic memoir, [1] or autobiocomic [2]) is an autobiography in the form of comic books or comic strips. The form first became popular in the underground comix movement and has since become more widespread. It is currently most popular in Canadian, American and French comics; all artists listed below are ...
Wings of Fire ( 1999), is the autobiography of the Missile Man of India and the former President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. It was written by him and Arun Tiwari. [1] In the autobiography, Kalam examines his early life, effort, hardship, fortitude, luck and chance that eventually led him to lead Indian space research, nuclear and ...
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (listen ⓘ; 12 September 1894 – 1 November 1950) [1] was an Indian writer in the Bengali language. [2] [3] His best known works are the autobiographical novel Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road), Aparajito (Undefeated), Chander Pahar (Mountain of the Moon) and Aranyak (of the forest).
The autobiography was written and serialized over the period from 25 November 1925 to 3 February 1929 [8] in 166 installments, which appeared in Navajivan. The corresponding English translations were printed in Young India , and reprinted in Indian Opinion in South Africa, and in the American journal Unity .
[1] [3] Written during the long illness of his wife, Kamala, Nehru's autobiography is closely centred around his marriage. [6] In the book, he describes nationalism as "essentially an anti-feeling, and it feeds and fattens on hatred against other national groups, and especially against the foreign rulers of a subject country". [7]