Subhas Basu
As a graduate student of Presidency College, Calcutta and later as a Ph.D. scholar of JNU, Delhi and also as a post-doctoral visitor to foreign universities, Subhas Basu had contact with people having first-hand experience of the macabre happenings of periods immediately before and after the collapse of the two movements that the novel, Rebels and Assassins, is about. Basu tells the story of two small groups of rebels, one in USA and the other in India and of romance and ideology, in an easy flowing narrative. It is a page-turner with vivid portrayals of passionate love affairs, rivalries among rebels and tragedies that follow almost in a poetic sequence. The book is a must-read for those interested in untold legends of local history and also for those who love pristine stories of romance and passion…
