Indian Hippie - Gautam Shankar Banerjee - Bog

"An insight into a troubled times"
This is a story of strife, of revolt, of discord, of union: between people, between issues and between systems in the early seventies.
Sarah, a young Jewish American girl comes to India in search of peace and harmony. Akshyayh, a Westernised Indian youth from a high society, breaks away and joins the hippies, in an ashram in Rishikesh. The two meet and the result is marriage and return to the strife-torn city of Calcutta.
Akshyay begins sarode lessons and encounters a Naxalite in his music teacher's son. Sarah, renamed Sati, picks up a job in mercantile firm to help tide over pecuniary problems.
The consequences... read the novel to find out and get a new insight into those chaotic years.
Shockingly violent
Outspoken Romance
Class hatred Transcending love
Suggestive
Spiritualism
Humanism
"An explosive theme in
a well-structured plot"