Kaushik Basu

Life tends to take us through twists and turns, but sometimes it takes us on a journey that we could never have imagined. In this captivating autobiography, we follow the author from his idyllic childhood in a remote village in Bengal in British India, to his youth amidst poverty and hardship in post-Independence Kolkata, to England in the late 196...

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