sentences:  Jayakar was born in 1915 at Etawah in the state of United Provinces (later known as Uttar Pradesh).Her father was a liberal intellectual and senior officer in the Indian Civil Service while her mother came from a Gujarati Brahmin family from Surat, where Pupul spent her yearly summer breaks.She had a brother, Kumaril Mehta, and four sisters, Purnima, Premlata, Amarganga and Nandini Mehta.