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	Begum Akhtar: The Story Of My Ammi by Shanti Hiranand
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“….It is interesting how these two women from seemingly diverse backgrounds could come to such an exalted level of understanding between themselves, in times that were not very conductive to such social interactions. Shantiji belonged to an upper middle class business family. She had a liberal education and was used to a certain space and freedom to pursuer her own passions, while Begum Akhtar lived within the cloistered environs of typical feudal home in those days. On the one hand Shantiji was an austere Gandhi an and Begum Akhtar was a person of deep indulgences. It is amazing that even Shantiji’s parents never stood in her way; they never stopped her from being with her ‘Ammi’. On the contrary on occasions it was Shantiji’s mother who encouraged her to follow her Guru right until the end…”