Born in 1912, and bearing witness to nine remarkable decades, full of change and movement, Ahoka Gupta writes an account of her life and times. These were decades, as she says, 'of new beginnings and new learning… amidst a constantly expanding sream of relaionships hat made up my personal life. These were also nine decades of turbulent change in he life of a nation-in-he-making eager o find its place in the sun.' Thus she knits her personal and public life, relating how her life as a private individual had o make way for her other responsibilities and she became inexorably linked to voluntary work.

Ashoka Gupta is the former president of the All India Women's Conference and is Patron. She is a member of many social welfare organizations and has spent a lifetime in social work.