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Indrani Ganguly was born of Bengali parents in Lucknow, India. Her parents imbued her with a strong sense of Indian and world history and culture and a great appreciation of diversity in all its forms. Indrani studied English Honours and sociology in India and did her Ph.D. on the impact of British occupation on revolution and reform in West Bengal from the Australian National University.

Indrani has worked in academia, publishing and diverse government and non-government organisations and as a volunteer Committee Member in many community organisations. In 1990, Indrani married an Australian with whom she now lives in Brisbane. They have a son and daughter and a grandson. Love of the creative arts, reading and writing remain her abiding pas ...more

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Nothing but biscuits & bully to eat. “Popular soldier’s song, circa 1918, recorded in the diary of Archie A. Barwick.
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