Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya

"An outstanding literary biography" AMITAV GHOSH"Mukul writes beautifully, and brings to life a man who has often been misunderstood" BENJAMIN MOSER"This book is a remarkable contribution to the world of Indian letters: ANNIE ZAIDI Sachchidanand Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya' is unarguably one of the most remarkable figures of Indian literature. From his revolutionary youth to acquiring the mantle of a (highly controversial) patron saint of Hindi literature, Agyeya's turbulent life also tells a history of the Hindi literary world and of a new nation-spanning as it does two world wars, Independence and Partition, and the building and fraying of the Nehruvian state.