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Datta narrates the story of a defector who left his idealist activism to settle for a comfortable and successful life abroad. He uses the genre of mystery films to attempt an 'objective' analysis of the nuanced truth behind one symbolic betrayal that failed the movement. Released on the fiftieth year of the Naxalbari Movement, Anik Datta's movie tackles some of the unresolved conflicts of the past by giving them human faces. The protest got 11 villagers killed, and spun off into a violent insurgency aimed at the annihilation of the people's enemy, and eventually exposed the Marxist/Maoist divide in the Communist Party of India. On May 25, 1967, a group of tribal sharecroppers in an Indian village called Naxalbari under the state of West Bengal resisted the landowners from getting their yield.

This essay both pits Anik Datta's movie Meghnadbodh Rohoshyo against other literary works dealing with the Naxal question and examines its intertextuality to understand the multifaceted theme of political betrayal that subsumes the armed insurgency. A comparison of the two novels brings to the fore the representation of the local economic and political problems faced by the peasants. These readings obscured some aspects of the narratives of the peasant. This article considers reviews of the novels written just after publication to examine the way in which they were sometimes read through their international frames-the relationship between colonial India and Britain in the case of The Sword and The Sickle-and discourses around terrorism in the case of The Lives of Others.

These multiple layers mean that the question of “who speaks for the village?” is mediated by the reader and the framework they apply. Through their literary strategies, both texts connect the local situation to broader national and international influences and also relate a story set in the past to the time in which the novels were written and published. An epilogue dated 2012 connects the historical movement to present Maoist insurgencies. Neel Mukherjee’s The Lives of Others (2014) alternates a story about the Naxalite peasant insurgency between 19 with one about a bourgeois family in Calcutta. Mulk Raj Anand’s The Sword and The Sickle (1942) narrates a historical uprising in Oudh in 1921–22.

Bengali books pdf shirshendu chakraborty anu