Rebels and Assassins (A Novel)

Rebels and Assassins is a parallel episode of the author’s previous novel Round Loaf and the Moon [Minerva, 1999]. It is a story of revolt and of rethinking about the true path by its young protagonists. Even though the novel uses the historical background of the late sixties of two countries viz. India and USA, the protagonists, other characters and events described in the novel are completely imaginary. In 1968, following the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., there is sudden eruption of violence in the black people’s movement in USA. The other country where a revolt was staged, almost at the same time, was India at a remote village in Bengal. That revolt was subsumed into the mainstream in no time. This story is about two student ideologues of that movement who flee and go abroad, one to USA and the other to the UK, to hide and about events that follow…