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This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale by Subimal Misra, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
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Subimal Misra - anarchist, activist, anti-establishment, experimental anti-writer - is one of India's greatest living writers. This collection of two anti-novels" is the first of his works to appear in the U. S. "This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale" is a novella about trying to write a novella about a tea-estate worker 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 which are either indifferent or actively malignant. "When Color Is a Warning Sign" goes even further in its experimentation, abandoning the barest pretense of narrative and composed entirely as a collage of vignettes and snippets of 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 socio-political order." | This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale by Subimal Misra, Paperback | Indigo Chapters