The Revolutionaries

Standing on the summit of the 20,000-foot-high Stok Kangri, the highestpeak in Ladakh, a few months past their seventieth birthdays, Aruna and herhusband Sandeep reflect on their past dreams and aspirations and whetherthey achieved what they had wanted to or not. Their story is filled withmany stirring events and encounters, extending from the London of theswinging sixties to India during the Emergency of the mid-1970s and thetroubled times that followed. Along the way, they are influenced by Marxisttheory and some Maoist activists they meet, and try to join the working-class revolution by befriending a group of disaffected Sikh factory workersin London. Back in India, the couple settle down in Chandigarh, the 'CityBeautiful', where they come into contact with slum dwellers and discover theextent of destitution and discrimination that disenfranchised communitiesstruggle with-a realization further reinforced by their travels to thehinterlands of Bihar. Inevitably, the couple are drawn towards the Naxalitemovement-only to learn that betrayal, sexual exploitation and corruptionhave no class barriers.Narrated in an unhurried, expansive style, Neena Nehru's immersive novelrevisits the idealism and disillusionment, the heady conviction and slow lossof faith that marked the lives of a section of India's youth in the sixties andseventies, trying to reconcile their own privilege with the harsh lives of a vastmajority of their fellow citizens. An extraordinarily sensitive, engaging novel, The Revolutionaries is also a rare slice of modern Indian history.

• | Author: Neena Nehru
• | Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books
• | Publication Date: Jan 20, 2025
• | Number of Pages: 00280 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 9363363422
• | ISBN-13: 9789363363427