Nirad c chaudhuri biography in telugu

Chaudhuri graduated from Calcutta University and made his name writing on cultural and political themes. As secretary to Sarat Chandra Bose, brother of the nationalist leader, he developed an aversion to the form Indian nationalism was taking. From he was a political commentator for All India Radio in the years leading up to independence.

He was an original thinker, forthright in his opinions and an internationalist, in the sense of one who embraces the best of all cultures but never loses his own.

Nirad c chaudhuri autobiography pdf

In he published his most famous book, Autobiography of an Unknown Indian , a penetrating and challenging analysis of Indian history, culture and British rule. The controversial dedication to the memory of the British Empire caused a furore at the time but the book is now considered a classic work of Indian literature. Litt from the University of Oxford; the University of Viswa Bharati also awarded him Deshikottama, its highest honorary degree.

A passionate admirer of western culture, he first visited England in , a visit which inspired his book Passage to England. He decided to make his home in Oxford in when he was over seventy. He was a familiar and arresting sight out and about in Oxford, a diminutive figure, always impeccably dressed in a three-piece suit, although he wore Indian attire at home.

He wrote his last book Three Horsemen of the New Apocalypse only a year before his death at the age of nearly Home Plaques awarded, with biographies Who qualifies?