Ten Days of the Strike

The narrator asks the reader to call him Pran, yet he has no life of his own: he is a part of Banabihari, a communist whose revolutionary fervour has set into an educated man's pride, and Banabihari never notices him. Pran trails Banabihari wherever he goes, and he keeps an eye on Pratibha too, setting down what happens to her: her eyes first lose their sense of colour and then their sight, though she can still find Pran's hand. Behind them runs left-wing politics from 1967 to 1997, with its quarrels and the private lives it shaped and broke.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

80 pages in the original

Genres

Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

India, 1967–1997

First published

2000 by Ajkaal Publishers

Author's age

67 when first published

ISBN

9789362138224 (Harper Perennial, India)