For Existence is an interesting work of fiction with contemporary socio-political overtones, especially in the context of the state of affairs, in the State of Assam. Set in the confines of Assam, the novel questions the role of the youth in this "state of turmoil", and is a critique of the militant form of protest, providing a link between the fictional world of Sumit and the real world of the reader. The deft use of a small town setting in the ...