Dehradun, Oct. 13 -- Book Review

Neena Nehru - The Revolutionaries: A Novel

"And so, we finally / See / through the looking glass / beyond the flickering screen, into the window pane, bumping / nose-to-nose, those racked / d i s t a n c es / between / OUGHT / and / IS / whose wistful, taunting edges / fling back / in disturbing distortions and dissonances / those pure anthems that once / rang out."

In 1960s London, two young Indians - a South Indian girl from an administrative family and a North Indian boy from a feudal family - come together over Frank Sinatra songs and Francois Truffaut films. Aruna and Sandeep share rooms and thoughts with Nigerian and Indonesian and Iranian students whilst learning from British professors who encou...