in The Idyllic University Town, Young Women Daydreamed As They Lay On The Grass and Gazed Up At The Clouds. Young Men Took Morning Walks At Alfred Park. Hot Summer Afternoons Were for Drinking Sherbet and Eating Watermelons, and Evenings Were Meant for Reading Poetry. It Was Also A Time of Stifling Social Mores, and Love Was an Unattainable Ideal Seldom Realized.allahabad of The 1940s is The Serene Backdrop To The Turbulence of Chanders Love for His Professors Daughter Sudha. Driven By His Passionate Belief in The Transcending Purity of Their Love, Chander Persuades Sudha To Marry another Man, To Devastating Consequences. Unhinged By His Separation From Sudha and Consumed By A Restless Desire To Make Sense of Loveis It Really About Sex is The Purity of Love A Liechander Spirals into A Destructive Affair With The Seductive Pammi. Immensely Popular Since Its Publication More Half A Century Ago, Chander and Sudha Continues To Seduce Readers With Its Potent Mix of Tender Passion and Heartbreaking Tragedy. Product Description about The Author poonam Saxena is A Journalist With Hindustan Times, Where She is The Editor of The Sunday Magazine. She Did Her Ba and Ma in History From St. Stephens College, Delhi, and Went On To Do an Mphil From Delhi University. She Has Been A Journalist for Almost Twenty Years, First As A Freelancer and Then As Features Editor With Newspapers Such As The Asian Age. She Wrote A Popular Tv Review Column in The Hindustan Times Called Small Screen for Almost Ten Years. Her Translation of Gunahon Ka Devta, Acclaimed Hindi Writer Dharamvir Bharatis Iconic 1949 Novel into English Chander and Sudha, Penguin Viking Received Glowing Reviews.