Nurjahan

Jyoti Jafa, an aristocrat by birth, was educated in Sophia College, Ajmer. She qualified for the Indian Foreign Service in 1965, but gave it up and became a writer instead. A keen student of history and everything historical, she understands both the code of honour dear to her ancestors and the uses and abuses of power that have eaten—and continue to eat—into the entrails of society. Yet, she also believes in life’s lighter moments; and it is her sense of joie de vivre that makes the reader chuckle his way through this book.