PRAGOTI

 Prof. Geraldine Forbes, a distinguished teaching professor at SUNY, USA had written an introduction to Capt. Lakshmi's autobiography "A Revolutionary Life - Memoirs of a political activist". Forbes' essay serves as a great introduction and provides a lot of perspective on the challenges, obstacles faced and achievements of the freedom fighter, communist and revolutionary, Capt. Lakshmi. Pragoti has arranged for a scanned copy of the introduction from the autobiography and is publishing it for non-commercial, informational purposes following the death of the distinguished freedom fighter a couple of days ago.

The uncompressed scanned version is available at this location - http://media.pragoti.org/9_LakshmiSahgal1NewDoc.pdf  Link - here. A compressed version is attached along with this post. We apologise for lack of clarity in some pages in the compressed version. 

Attempts to contact the publisher of the book did not bear fruit as the publisher has gone out of press. The introduction has been published after taking the consent of Capt. Lakshmi's nearest kin.