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Product Description Every man has a story! - I recall at this moment this statement of a famous writer. If a man writes his autobiography, revealing his thoughts and his life s incidents that can be shared with others, it will definitely be an interesting long story! When I reminisced about it, I mused why I myself should not put down in black and white my own story. In our country, that is India, the one and only man qualified to do so was none other than Mahatma Gandhi. He was one who never boosted his personality either by uttering lies or by concealing truths. Nevertheless, in this autobiographical story, I m not going to utter any lies. I intend narrating only such things as will not offend or hurt the feelings of others. My reference to others doesn t relate to those who are connected with my life alone. As one who s crossed the ocean of unbearable sufferings and sorrows, the truths I m going to divulge in this story are going to hurt for sure the feelings of such men and women who re till date causing similar grief to others. But I can t help it. About the Author Born in 1935, Jyothirllata Girija started writing in Tamil for children first in 1950 and then was introduced as an adults writer by ANANDA VIKATAN in 1968. She has more than 500 short stories, 25 novels, 50 novellas, 3 full-length plays, several articles on social issues, translation of major part in Tamil of Kiran Bedi s As I see it etc. to her credit. She has won 20 awards so far for her Tamil creations. Her teen-agers novel which already won an award in Tamil Nadu was translated in Ukraine and released during the Festival of India in Moscow in 1987. As for her creations in English, introduced by Vimla Patil of Femina in 1975, she has written about 36 short stories in the Indian periodicals THE ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY OF INDIA, FEMINA, EVE s WEEKLY, PRATIBHA INDIA, YOUR FAMILY, FICTION REVIEW, WOMAN S ERA, MOVIELAND (MALAYSIA), THE SUNDAY (INDIAN) EXPRESS, THE