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Material Type: | Fiction |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Santanu Kumar Acharya |
OCLC Number: | 18599049 |
Notes: | In Oriya. A novel. |
Description: | 3, 78 pages ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | Śantanu Kumāra Āchāryya. |
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who killed poor Gandhi
The protagonist of this novellette is a frail young tourist, a college girl named Mini, who got raped by a group of people on the Puri beach, infront of her parents, in the early seventies of the twentieth century India. It was the time of the violent revolution caused by Naxals in...
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The protagonist of this novellette is a frail young tourist, a college girl named Mini, who got raped by a group of people on the Puri beach, infront of her parents, in the early seventies of the twentieth century India. It was the time of the violent revolution caused by Naxals in the Indian political scenario that now tag themselves under a new synonym Maoists. The girl later identified the rapists as the same people of whom many were young members of the ruling political parties who put on Gandhi's caps.
The victim however could not win the law suit as her parents were intimidated by the criminals and were forced to draw up a compromise.
Consequently she was harassed by her own parents who forced her to concede her " feminist arrogance " and finally submit to the evil demands of her oppressors. She thought of suicide. But circumstances prevailed upon her in such compelling manner that she instead was sucked in to politics and joined the Naxllite movement and left home, as most educated youths of the day did so being revengeful against an unjust society.
Thus Indian politicians, in the post Gandhian era, allowed the growth of Marxist violence to take place on Indian soil and replace Gandhi's non-violence as a means of peaceful revolution and movement that once brought in independence for India.
The novellete created a stir when it was first published in 1976, the time of the first high tide of social violence caused by Naxals in India.
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