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A richly detailed and intimate history of an extraordinary life and an extraordinary city, full of warmth, humour, empathy and wisdom.
Sushila Lotlikar was barely in her teens when tragedy forced her to give up her education and join Parshwanath Altekars Little Theatre in Mumbai in 1940. But the young Konkani girl soon became a hit on the Gujarati stage and went on to storm the Marwadi stage. And then, at the age of twenty-one, she retired. Taking her mothers advice-The world of cinema and theatre is like a coal shop, your hands are going to get black-she married actor-writer Pandit Jaydeo...

As the Indian economy integrates into global circuits of production, exchange and accumulation, the burdens of adjustment are shared unequally by different sectors, classes and regions. This study unravels the livelihood strategies and living conditions of labour in the tea gardens of Assam. The tea sector has been undergoing a crisis since the 1990s, with stagnant production, decline in exports, and closures of many tea gardens leading to large-scale retrenchments in the labour force.

Based on a detailed analysis of secondary data and primary field research, the study examines the...