Dreamt Lives Anirudh Deshpande VI Nanda In the late 1970s Nanda returned from a medical college in Sonipat with a dislocated knee andgave up the medical course despite the open disapproval of her parents. Nanda was erudite, imaginative, disorganized and, as it happens with such people, bad at prescribed studies. From Assam she had been sent to Hyderabad to finish school. When she refused to distinguish herself in that city and Ravi’s grandfather died she was called to Delhi. She failed the entrance tests in two schools before a third admitted her. She passed out from this school situated in