Books

Neena Nehru’s The Revolutionaries captures the restless, questioning spirit of the 1960s generation — a class of privileged idealists caught between Marx and modernity, and between empathy and the comfort of their own privilege

XIn 1960s London, two young Indians — a South Indian girl from an administrative family and a North Indian boy from a feudal family — come together over Frank Sinatra songs and François Truffaut films. Aruna and Sandeep share rooms and thoughts with Nigerian, Indonesian and Iranian students whilst learning from British professors who encouraged them to question everything. They share an upper-middle-class sympathy, fostered through elite liberal college education, for the struggles of the proletariat; they critique India’s “mai-baap” mentality and the descen

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