Read an excerpt from Devapriya Roy’s Friends From College chronicling the Journey of Charulata Ghosh to being nicknamed the ‘Helen of Troy’.

January 19, 1966, was the day the country elected its very first and only female Prime Minister to date, the late Smt. Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi. Fifty-two years hence, a little girl named Indira Thapa is on a quest to uncover her namesake’s story, and find answers to the eternal and plaguing question in Indian politics, […]