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Helium

by Jaspreet Singh

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  Jaspreet Singh`s follow up to Chef wrestles with one of the most shocking moments in the history of the Indian nation: the massacre of the Sikh citizens enabled by the government after the assassination of Indira Gandhi

On November 1st 1984, a day after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi`s assassination, a nineteen-year-old student travels back from a class trip to the northern regions of India with Professor Singh, his mentor, an expert on chemical elements and the man who introduced him to Primo Levi`s The Periodic Table. As the group disembark at Delhi station a mob surrounds the professor, throws a tyre over him, douses him in petrol and sets him alight.

Even after moving to the United States, taking a post at Cornell University, marrying and having children, the student, Raj, finds that his past will not leave him alone. He is compelled to return home to find his professor`s widow, the beautiful and enigmatic Nelly. Working as a librarian in the crumbling Viceregal Lodge, Nelly has been attempting for years to bury herself under the archives of her country`s colonial history. As the two walk through the misty mountains of Shimla painful memories emerge - of children fighting with bright red kites, yellow padlocks holding onto charred doorways and laboratory flames as purple as Jacaranda flowers. But when Nelly comes up against a nation that refuses to remember, and Raj faces the distressing truth about his father`s role in a genocidal pogrom, they both find that the path inexorably leads back to Delhi and to that train station.

Fusing documentary and fictional impulses, Helium deals with one of the most shocking moments in the history of the Indian nation: the massacre of the Sikh citizens organised, incited and enabled by the government. Jaspreet Singh has crafted an affecting and important story of memory, collective silences and personal trauma.

ISBN - 9781408838211
 


Pages : 288
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