02060nam a22002297a 4500 20260217161507.0 260217b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789354476631 : Technical Bureau : 4794/23, 1st Floor, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi ; TB3471 : 11/2/2026 923.35 JAI Jain, Devaki. The Brass Notebook : A Memoir. / Devaki Jain. New Delhi : Speaking Tiger Book, , 2020. xv, 215p. : 18cm. 349 In this noholdsbarred memoir, Devaki Jain begins with her childhood in south India, a life of comfort and ease with a father who served as dewan in the Princely States of Mysore and Gwalior. But there were restrictions too, that come with growing up in an orthodox Tamil Brahmin family, as well as the rarely spoken about dangers of predatory male relatives. Ruskin College, Oxford, gave her her first taste of freedom in 1955, at the age of 22. Oxford brought her a degree in philosophy and economics—as well as hardship, as she washed dishes in a cafe to pay her fees. It was here, too, that she had her early encounters with the sensual life. With rare candour, she writes of her romantic liaisons in Oxford and Harvard, and falling in love with her ‘unsuitable boy’—her husband, Lakshmi Jain, whom she married against her beloved father’s wishes. Devaki’s professional life saw her becoming deeply involved with the cause of ‘poor’ women—workers in the informal economy, for whom she strove to get a better deal. In the international arena, she joined cause with the concerns of the colonized nations of the south, as they fought to make their voices heard against the rich and powerful nations of the former colonizers. Her work brought her into contact with world leaders and thinkers, amongst them, Vinoba Bhave, Nelson Mandela, Henry Kissinger, and Iris Murdoch. Economists Biography. Memoir. Devaki Jain. BOOK 67099 67099 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2026-02-17 Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. 349.00 1 2 923.35 JAI 31336 2026-05-24 11:07:51 2026-03-15 2026-02-17 BOOK