Through the Forest Darkly

Details Author Reviews Description Aseem, naïve and earnest, has just returned to Delhi to look for a job after completing his business studies. Disillusioned with his father Avinashs uninspiring life, and desperately trying to carve a path for himself independent of his overbearing and interfering aunt, Menaka and her ad-man husband, Aseem finds himself drawn to Swati, a Maoist sympathizer and working in Aseem, naïve and earnest, has just returned to Delhi to look for a job after completing his business studies. Disillusioned with his father Avinashs uninspiring life, and desperately trying to carve a path for himself independent of his overbearing and interfering aunt, Menaka and her ad-man husband, Aseem finds himself drawn to Swati, a Maoist sympathizer and working in Delhis slums. As his life takes one surprising turn after another, Aseem comes face to face with a Maoist revolutionary and an Adivasi commander fighting a covert battle in the forests of Bastar, discovers facets of his fathers past that he could not have imagined, and finds himself working with Menaka and her husband to market a godman. Rich in vivid imagery, Through the Forest, Darkly, is an uncompromising yet poignant depiction of love and ideals betrayed, violence and cruelty, and a society torn apart by irreconcilable divides. Aseem, naïve and earnest, has just returned to Delhi to look for a job after completing his business studies. Disillusioned with his father Avinashs uninspiring life, and desperately trying to carve a path for himself independent of his overbearing and interfering aunt, Menaka and her ad-man husband, Aseem finds himself drawn to Swati, a Maoist sympathizer and working in Aseem, naïve and earnest, has just returned to Delhi to look for a job after completing his business studies. Disillusioned with his father Avinashs uninspiring life, and desperately trying to carve a path for himself independent of his overbearing and interfering... Read More

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