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An Education for Rita A Memoir 1975-1985
by Brinda Karat
Leftword, January 2024
(Paperback) ISBN 978-93-92018-21-3
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Brinda Karat, a former member of Rajya Sabha is one of the founders of All India Democratic Women’s Association. A member of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India( Marxist) she penned down a memoir titled An Education for Rita, A Memoir 1975-1985. She dedicated the memoir to her comrades in the (…)
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