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There's Gunpowder In The Air

There’s Gunpowder In The Air

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Translated byArunava Sinha
9789395073301 | Paperback | 178 | 2022 | Westland

There's Gunpowder In The Air by Manoranjan Byapari is a novel about a group of Naxals planning a jailbreak amidst the Naxalbari Movement of the seventies.

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Author: Manoranjan Byapari
Translated by Arunava Sinha

9789395073301 | PB | pp. 178 | 2022 | Westland

There’s Gunpowder In The Air by Manoranjan Byapari is a novel about a group of Naxals planning a jailbreak amidst the Naxalbari Movement of the seventies.

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It’s the early seventies. The Naxalbari Movement is gathering strength in Bengal. Young men and women have left their homes, picked up arms to free land from the clutches of feudal landlords and the state, and return them to oppressed landless farmers. They are being arrested en masse and thrown into high-security jails.

In one such jail, five Naxals are meticulously planning a jailbreak. They must free themselves if the revolution is to continue. But petty thief Bhagoban, much too happy to serve frequent terms for free food and shelter, has been planted by Jailor Bireshwar Mukherjee among them as a mole. Only, Bhagoban seems to be warming up to them.

There’s Gunpowder in the Air is a searing investigation into what deprivation and isolation can do to human idealism. And Manoranjan Byapari is perhaps the most refreshing voice to emerge from Bengal in recent times.

Author:

Manoranjan Byapari
Translator: Arunava Sinha
ISBN:

9789395073301
Publisher:

Westland
Binding:

Paperback
Pages:

178
Year of Publication:

2022
Edition:

Reissue
Condition:

New
Country of Origin:

India

About the Author

The author was born in the mid-fifties in Barishal, Bangladesh. His family migrated to West Bengal when he was three. They were first resettled in Bankura at the Shiromanipur Refugee camp. Later, they were forced to shift to the Gholadoltala Refugee Camp, 24 Parganas, and lived there till 1969. However, Byapari had to leave home at the age of fourteen to do odd jobs. At age twenty-four, he came into contact with the Naxals and with the famous labour activist Shankar Guha Niyogi, founder of the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha at the Dalli Rajhara Mines. He was sent to jail during this time, where he taught himself to read and write. Later, while working as a rickshaw puller in Kolkata, Byapari had a chance meeting with Mahasweta Devi, who urged him to write for her journal Bartika. He has published ten novels and over fifty short stories since. Until recently he was working as a cook with the Hellen Keller Institute for the Deaf and Blind in West Bengal.

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