Intermediary Lives: Intellectual Flux, Gender Autonomy, and the Roots of Historiography in Independence-Era India
Romila Thapar at her residence in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives I loved visiting [Romesh and Raj]; they had interesting and unusual friends who included writers and poets Mulk Raj Anand and Kaifi Azmi, Zohra Sehgal the actor, scientists such as D. D. Kosambi and Col. Sokhey who headed the Haffkine Institute,…