The Man Who Stole Rainbow

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This novel is about the success and failure of the first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. It deals with the predicaments of the early years of Indian independence and concerns itself with the moral and political problems of the era. It sheds light on many dark corners of India’s recent past. Recounting the pogrom of Muslims in Delhi in September 1947, the novel shows that Indian communalism was not the result of British policy of divide and rule. It was more the creation of Indian leaders whose bigotry and egos rent asunder the two religious identities into Hindu-Muslim schismatic division. The novel reveals how public opinion is manipulated and image and renown are manufactured. This novel’s deep concern for the people of India and its depiction of their fractured destiny, imparts it an uncommon gravity. As moral, social and political issues are developed to entwine the rich pattern of the story, satire, irony, subtle humour, parody and parables are used to give a sharp edge to the moral tone of the novel. At a time when literature itself is fast becoming irrelevant in India, this novel affirms the relevance of fiction as a forum of inquiry and as an arena of ideas.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shamsher Singh Narula

Mr Shamsher Singh Narula started writing short stories in Urdu and Hindi in the nineteen forties which were noted for their human sympathy and narrative quality. In Hindi in fifties he wrote a novel which related to the situation that led to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and in sixties he wrote the second which laid bare the ignominy of life in Delhi when the Chinese armies reached Brahmaputra in November 1962. In Hindi he wrote a treatise on the philosophy of fiction which is one of the few works in the language on the fundaments of literary criticism. Mr. Narula is in ninety first year. He retired from the Press Information Bureau thirty two years ago.

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Title
The Man Who Stole Rainbow
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Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8186425160
Length
222p.
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