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Subimal Misra anarchist, activist, anti-establishment, experimental 'anti-writer' is a contemporary master, and among India's greatest living writers. Misra's works are confrontational, and meant to challenge and provoke readers -morally, politically, and also in terms of what they expect from 'literature'. This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale is a novella about trying to write a novella about a tea estate worker turned Naxalite named Ramayan Chamar, who gets arrested during a workers' strike and is beaten up and killed in custody. But every time the author attempts to write that story, reality intrudes in various forms to create a picture of a nation and society that is broken down and where systemic inequalities are perpetuated by the middle and up…

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