Samidha - An Autobiography

Author: Sadhana Amte
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): Shobha Pawar
Publisher: Orient Longman
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 260
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8125034048

Description

A fairy tale romance and a blueprint for anyone who wants to venture into social service, this autobiography of Sadhanatai Amte - a woman who chose to marry a frenzied man and a dreamer, Baba Amte - is also a tale of her willing surrender in love without the slightest loss of her identity.

It is a document of the dreams they dreamt for humankind and their struggle to put life into them. These memoirs present the portrait of a woman beside a man; a perfect consort who has the ability to tame the living storm, Baba Amte.

Written without a stance, the distinctive simplicity of this transparent narrative, as compared to other similar writings by women, has the power to stir its readers with its salty sea-air tang and warmth of a fruitful mad pursuit of a goal - at once personal and impersonal.

A book like this - a sage of suffering, hopes, tensions and success, as well as the thrill of pleasure of work the two experienced while pursuing their goal - will serve as a beacon of light for posterity and as a model inhuman relationship.