India’s freedom struggle has thrown up fighters of different colours and hues. Their exploits have ranged from Gandhian non-violent resistance to bomb-throwing militancy. The author, of this book of memoirs, is a class apart who defies categorization, Drawn into the freedom struggle at college-doing age, he was charged for murder of an Englishman, held without trial in jails in and outside Bengal, rearrested under Defence of India rules and kept as a security prisoner. Yet, he continued his academic pursuits, earned a doctorate from Oxford and held important positions in the UN organizations in Geneva and Rome after Independence. His reminiscences span four crucial decades of Indian history as experienced and observed by him as a revolutionary, scholar, teacher and administrator. They tell the fascinating, often unbelievable but true stories in the vortex of a revolution. Being a first-hand account, they are authentic, revealing and inspiring. A Fascinating book, which brings to light, little-known and yet unknown facts, which determined Indian destiny during the crucial years, 1912-1948.
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