The Management of Grief | Author Biography
Born in Calcutta, India, on July 27, 1940, Muhkerjee is the second of three daughters of a wealthy chemist and his wife. In 1947, the year that India gained its independence from England, the Mukherjees moved to London where Mukherjee's father took a researching job. The girls attended private schools in London and Switzerland. In 1951, the family returned to Calcutta, and the girls attended the Loretto school, an elite private Catholic school run by Irish nuns. Thus all of their schooling emphasized Western values and traditions at the expense of Indian culture.
Mukherjee studied at...
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