This remarkable publication is a translation by the eminent author I.K.K. Menon, of Ratnamayi Devi’s autobiography written in Malayalam about 20 years account of her early life before marriage in Travancore in the second and third decades of the last century; her marriage to a distinguished but temperamental playwright at the age of sixteen and her determined search for a career which even after three children were born to her, took her to Madras, where she ...
