Ebook: ...And Pine For What Is Not

Suneeta Deshpande s bitter-sweet reminiscenes are of a life fully lived, from a student revolutionary, stage performer, writer, to being an educational administrator. Translated by Gauri Deshpande from the Marathi original (1990), it paints a vivid picture of a large repertoire of roles packed into one eventful existence. Her biography reveals varied facets of a high-principled and intensely private person a woman who could bring an intensity of purpose not only to bomb-making and underground work, but also to poetry-reading and tribal education.