About the Book:

His Days with Bapu is a book embellished with some interesting snippets about the tumultuous years just before and after India’s independence, some intriguing facts, some brutal home truths.

It is a riveting biographical sketch of a unique man who lived under fifteen Prime Ministers, some of whom he knew personally. Despite his frail health, this personal secretary of Bapu from 1944 - 1948, set his daily routine of gardening and cleanliness aside, and spent hours talking to the author.  Divided into three parts, the book draws a picture of Bapu, seen through Kalyanam’s lenses.  It will indeed be an invaluable treasure for every college and university library and is highly recommended for both, the young and old.

About the Author:

Writer Shobha Warrier is an award-winning journalist (Villgro Journalist of the Year 2011) who is currently the Editorial Director of rediffcom. This is her second book in English, the first being The Little Flower Girl — Diary of a Journalist, an anthology of her diaries as a journalist.  

In addition, she has published three short story collections in Malayalam (Ramakundam, Meghana and Jalavidya); For Jalavidya she was awarded the Lalithambika Antharjanam special award in 1996