He Mahajiban by Sunil Gangopadhyay [Hardcover]

At this moment, Hemkanti is an amnesiac—he cannot recognize anyone. It is as if everything is being erased from his mind, like wiping a slate clean. Fragments of some poems, lines of songs, and snippets of scenes keep reappearing in his mind like a scratched record. He has recently failed in a suicide attempt, and this memory loss is a consequence of that. He was involved in the Naxalite movement of the 1970s. Five years ago, former Naxalite Varun Ghoshdastidar was murdered in Purulia. Was Hemkanti the one who killed him? Hemkanti wishes to return from a dense fog of forgetfulness to the light. Could his close friend Jayi be that light? The political ideology Hemkanti once saw as a beacon of liberation—does it still exist in today’s Maoist movement? While traveling with a Maoist through the streets of Purulia, what truths did Jayi and Hemkanti uncover?