TY  - BOOK
AU  - Manoranjan Byapari
AU  - Arunava Sinha (Tr.)
TI  - There's gunpowder in the air
SN  - 9789395073301
U1  - 891.44371 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Chennai
PB  - Eka
KW  - Naxalite movement
KW  - political prisoners
KW  - India--West Bengal
N1  - translated from Bengali
N2  - 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.
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