Delhi Calm

01 August 2010

Vishwajyoti Ghosh

Harpercollins India

247 pages, Rs 499

A worthy addition to the small shelf of Indian graphic novels, ‘Delhi Calm’ is how the newspapers described the national capital on June 26, 1975—the day Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency. Ghosh puts a trio of young Delhi-wallahs, the Naya Savera band, against this historic period, and shows them dreaming of change and stoking the fires of rebellion with music.

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