THE SECOND PART OF AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR MANORANJAN BYAPARI'S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TRILOGY The second part of this extraordinary trilogy takes us into the late ?60s and early ?70s when the rumblings of liberation grew louder in East Pakistan and refugees came pouring into India, seeking asylum in the camps of West Bengal. The Naxalite movement too was gathering momentum; the CPI(M), which had broken away from the Communist Party, itself split with the formation of the CPI(ML), and a bitter power tussle ensued between its factions and the ruling party led by Indira Gandhi. Amidst this bloody battle, we find a twenty-something Jibon in Calcutta, driven to rage by hunger, inequity and a na?ve, contagious nationalistic fervour. This burning torch of a novel is a compelling portrait of a youth negotiating the streets of Calcutta, looking to seize a life that is constantly denied to him.