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Not Enabled Word Wise: Not Enabled Screen Reader: Enabled Amazon Best Sellers Rank: Would you like to report this content as inappropriate? Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? Can you point me to a review or a copy of this book? I live in Hyderabad. Oh By the Way - Congratulations! Is this your first book? Dear Nabina, Couple of hours back completed reading your novel.

Beautifully written and well articulated. Somewhere was not satisfied with the way you concluded it. Ending was a bit abrupt and very brief. Lot of hope and optimism surrounded it, but still seems very fictional far from the reality which I see around. People from civil society end up in empathising with Maoists and extremists but never seen a reverse trend where Maoists or extremist end up in civil society. A very interesting point you picked up. It can actually help in creating a much needed debate on reactionary violence.

At one point have disagreement on a historical fact. You told that Angulimaal turned into Valmiki later. I'm not sure how much is that correct. Angulimaal turned to sage or good human being after meeting Buddha, where as Valmiki met Naradh and became a saint. Otherwise it was amazing! But the novel is less a thriller about guerrilla action than a subtly colored character study of a fascinating group of individuals who intersect at various points in their lives Footprints in the Bajra is a serious book that moves at a smart uncontrived pace.

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It voices deep concerns about how and why the deprived and the marginalized in certain parts of our country join the Maoist ranks; how they adopt desperate and often terrible measures to wrench justice and to make their voices heard In her debut novel, Nabina Das writes about an India where social divides stand taller than multistoried shopping malls. Footprints in the Bajra , inspired by what she saw while touring the interiors of Bihar as part of a travelling theatre group, inquires into why the Maoists have an influence over a large section of Indian society.

Shakespeare and Lazarus as reference points are brought in with ease, as also Valmiki and Goddess Chhinnamasta, and nothing jars The language is poetic and creates visual images of beauty and ugliness side by side. Shwetank Dubey says Nabina Das ably recreates the milieu of Maoist-infested regions of India -- Nabina Das has chosen the first person account of narrating a story from the main characters of the novel, Nora the sheherwali urban dweller , Muskaan the rebel, Suryakant Sahay the crafty clandestine planner and Avadhut the frontrunner of all the operations A beautifully crafted book.

My Novel is Published. Published by Cedar Books , India, Footprints is about an India that is too strange to believe, yet is a reality for thousands of its citizens crouching at the margins. A story about a slice of rural India, it is written from an urban perspective, mainly from the point of view the two main protagonists, while each chapter is a first-person narrative voice from the chief characters. Footprints looks into the life of a young Maoist recruit -- a teenaged girl named Muskaan -- the way it spirals through bloodshed, retaliation, deception and yet, brings out her elemental dreams of life and love.

Maoism has been repeatedly touted by many in India as a greater "threat" than even the global read, Al Qaeda or cross-border Indo-Pakistan terrorism, with the government not quite able to get its head around the phenomenon. Maoism, the allegedly romantic refuge of the country's rural denizens, is not exactly a path strewn with roses for the socially deprived and the segregated. Centuries-old injustice, flawed government policies, flagrant violations of the basic human rights and deep-seated official apathy even in a "modern" India, have driven the poor and the marginalized to turn to Maoism, only adding to the statistics of death and destabilization.

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Call it a scourge, malaise or wrong judgment, it is also a terrible reality that Maoism in India has sheltered swathes of disgruntled populations that have perhaps little or no idea about Mao or Revolution. All they look out for is social justice in their own terms.

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The civil society is perhaps divided on if this is right or wrong, but there is no denying that lives have been torn up on all sides. Below is the cover of my book.

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Thank you, thank you Misi! Get to Know Us. Soumyabrata Sarkar added it Dec 27, The pulse moving toward conflict with reactionary, leaden forms of life. Then on a subliminal level, the subtle symbolism will work its magic.

I am happy to say that the cover art is also by me, adapted from my favorite Madhubani painting style of Bihar! The idea was to present a so-called rough and rustic appeal, in the way Madhubani derives its colors from vegetable and rock dyes, and in the way the symbolism of a tree, the sun and the thick outlines form a cohesive whole with burnt red, ochre and deep green tones.

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It is a world of idioms, myths and moving accounts that my art tries to capture. I sketched the motif on paper with pencil and ink and later went on to color it with ordinary marker pen!

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Following the scan, Cedar 's design team helped improve the resolution. The sun in the underbelly of a human-like form a twisted imitation of "the tree of life" with a bloodied root-sprung head was my idea of the unstable "system". The green pearl millet or the bajra is present in a "semi-circle of life" as opposed to the "circle of life" concept popular in Madhubani art. The book will be on Amazon worldwide and Rediff India for purchase later on. Posted by fleuve-souterrain at 6: Cedar Books , fiction , footprints in the bajra , Maoism , Nabina Das , novel.

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