Actually this could have become Ramayan Chamar's tale: two anti-novels

✍ Scribed by Miśra, Subimala;Ramaswamy, V

• Book ID: 100641561
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India; Harper Perennial
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 233 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
• ISBN: 9353023084

✦ Synopsis

Subimal Misra - anarchist, activist, anti-establishment, experimental 'anti-writer' - is a contemporary master, and among India's greatest living authors. This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale is a novella about a tea-estate worked turned Naxalite named Ramayan Chamar, who gets arrested during a worker's strike and is beaten up and killed in custody. But every time the author attempts to write that story, reality intrudes in various forms to create a picture of a nation and society that is broken down, and where systemic inequalities are perpetuated by the middle- and upper-classes who are either indifferent or actively malignant. When Colour Is A Warning Sign goes even further in its experimentation, abandoning the barest pretence of narrative and composed entirely as a collage of vignettes, dialogue, reportage, autobiography, etc. Together these two anti-novels are a direct assault on the 'vast conspiracy of not seeing' that makes us look away from the realities of our...

✦ Subjects

Miśra, Subimala, -- 1943