Preface 1. India: Past and Present / Last Days of British Rule / The Bengal Famine / Becoming a Photographer / Inspectorate of Scientific Stores / Communal Riots / Partition / Independence 2. Joining the CPI as a Reporter / Photographer / Photographing the Peasant Rallies and Demonstrations in the Cities / 'Photok Walla' / Gandhi and Nehru / Photographing the Diverse Peoples in India / Party Headquarters / South Indian Famines and Calcutta Riots with Margaret Bourke-White / Arrest and Detention / End of British Rule / P.C. Joshi / Leftist Governments 3. Freelancing from Calcutta / First Book of Photographs Designed by Satyajit Ray / First Exhibitions / Industrial Assignments / Marriage / School of Printing Technology / Photographing Village and Ttribal People / Nudes / Calcutta in the 1950s / Our House, My Studio, Friends, and Visitors / Chittaprasad, J.B.S.

Haldane / Photographing Dancers, Yehudi Menuhin, Verrier Elwin, Lindsay Emerson / Temple Sculptures and Ancient Monuments 4. UN Assignments in Sri Lanka, Burma, Malaysia, Thailand, Geneva, and Paris / Henri Cartier-Bresson / Living in New Delhi / The Book, Dances of the Golden Hall / Delhi Exhibition / Indira Gandhi / Invitations to Russia and the Socialist Countries of Europe, and Exhibitions in Berlin, Prague, Sofia, and Bucharest / Making Prints / Advances in Cameras and Photographic Materials During My Lifetime / The Digital Revolution / The Padma Shri Award / Depression / Deteriorating Health and Eyesight 5. Dealings with Government and Publishing Misadventures in India / Move to London / Living in London and the Long Drive through Western Europe / Exhibitions in London, Oxford, and Other Cities in England, and at the Fotofest in Houston, USA / Retrospective Exhibitions in New Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay / Exhibitions at the Havana Biennale in Cuba, in Merida in Mexico, and in New York and San Francisco / Selling Prints / Jyoti Basu / Michael Hoffman and the Aperture Exhibition / Alkazi 6. On Looking Back 7. Post-9/11 America-In New York, 11 September 2001 / Reactions to Present-day Events / The Bush Administration / Afghanistan / Al Qaeda / Iraq / USA and the world / Obama Elected President and a New Hope for America PHOTOGRAPHING INDIA The Making of History / Rural India / The Tribal People / Cities and Towns / The Cultural Heritage / Industrial Developments / Personal Photographs.