Odyssey of an Indian Bureaucrat

About the Book

Mr. Nripati Ghoshal has lived through a tumultuous period in Indian history and his own life is a remarkable representation of that. He suffered through the famine of 1942 and the devastating communal riots; witnessed the birth of a nation in 1947 amidst great social calamity; lived through the ensuing moral and political bankruptcy of the Indian intelligentsia and experienced first-hand the powerful reaches of a politicized and corrupted bureaucracy. In his lifetime he experienced abject poverty and extreme hardship as well as relative wealth and the material comfort that it brings and thus provides a unique perspective on the social, economic and moral standing of both rural and urban India through his autobiography-The Odyssey of an Indian Bureaucrat.

About the Author

Mr. Nripati Ghoshal was born in undivided Bengal near the city of Khulna (in present-day Bangladesh) in 1933 but moved to India with his family during his childhood for search of better pastures. Despite his constant struggle with poverty, he competed successfully and joined the Civil Service in West Bengal in 1955. He retired as an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and currently resides in Calcutta, India with his wife, Nilima.