Ganesh Bagchi was born in Faridpur in the eastern part of Bengal before the partition of India in 1926. The family subsequently moved to Calcutta - Kolkata in today's West Bengal - where he went to school, college and university and where he got married. My Days and Ways, the first part of Mr Bagchi's autobiography, spans a pivotal period in both British and Indian history. The forgotten Great Bengal Famine of 1943, the Second World War, the struggle for Indian independence, the assassination of Gandhi all play a part in his personal history, as does the independence of Uganda, Uhuru in 1963, shortly before the writer's return to India. A fabulous insight into the life of an incredible man.