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Nayantara Sahgal( born 10 May 1927) is an Indian writer in English. Her fiction deals with India's elite responding to the crises engendered by political change; she was one of the first female Indo-Anglian writers to receive wide recognition. She is a member of the Nehru-Gandhi family, the second of the three daughters born to Jawaharlal Nehru's sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.

She was awarded the 1986 Sahitya Akademi Award for English, for her novel, Rich Like Us (1985), by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.Her others books include: Prison and Chocolate Cake (memoir; 1954)
From Fear Set Free (novel; 1963)
A Time to Be Happy (novel; 1963)
This Time of Morning (novel; 1965)
Storm in Chandigarh (novel; 1969)
The Freedom Movement in India (1970)
Sunlight Surrounds You (novel; 1970) (with Chandralekha Mehta and Rita Dar i.e. her two sisters; this was the daughters' tribute to their mother)
The Day in Shadow (novel; 1971)
A Voice for Freedom (1977)
Indira Gandhi's Emergence and Style (1978)
Indira Gandhi: Her Road to Power (novel; 1982)
Plans for Departure (novel; 1985)
Rich Like Us (novel; 1985)
Mistaken Identity (novel; 1988)
A Situation in New Delhi (novel; 198