Dr. Monica Felton had been in active public service, serving on the London County Council, the Herdfortshire County Council and various town- planning committees in Britain before she came to India in 1956. She spent the last fourteen years of her life in Chennai working on various books till her death in 1970. She is also the author of I Meet Rajaji, a moving biography of Shri Rajagopalachari based on the several meetings between her and Rajaji, besides a novel To All the Living and a book about her journey to North Korea titled Why I Went.