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A Critique of Naxalite Movement
[Published in: The Sentinel (Assam) ] by Subhajit Bhadra Dilip Simeon’s first novel, Revolution Highway is a significant attempt in the domain of Indian writing in English as the author deals with the Naxalite movement that shook the Indian State during the late 1960s and early 1970s and the after-effects or implications of that movement […]
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Violence as a virus
March 16, 2011
(Published in: Nepali Times, Issue No. 542 (25 February 2011 – 03 March 2011) REVIEW Dilip Simeon delves into revolutionary zeal Dilip Simeon’s debut novel Revolutionary Highway charts the course of a group of students at Delhi University in the late 1960s. Inspired by what appears to be the global pulse of revolution, they become […]
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You Say You Want a Revolution
January 3, 2011
(Published in: The Caravan, January 2011) An inspired account of the radical movements of the 1960s and 70s By ANJUM HASAN Published : January 2011 HOW BEST TO WRITE HISTORICAL REVOLUTIONS into fiction? Gustave Flaubert showed us one way in his grand 19th-century bildungsroman, Sentimental Education , in which events and ideas of great national […]
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Hit and Miss
December 29, 2010
(Published in: The Telegraph, 17 December 2010) HIT AND MISS – Highway to nowhere Nothing of value Revolution highway By Dilip Simeon, Penguin, Rs 299 As the 1960s closed out on us and the 1970s began with the spectre of lost causes, events in eastern India, and especially in Calcutta, left hundreds of us scarred; […]
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Of Angels and History
November 14, 2010
[A truncated verison of this review appeared in Outlook Magazine, 22 November 2010; posted below is the complete version.] by Manjushree Thapa Anyone interested in India’s Naxalite movement will find much to linger over in Dilip Simeon’s enjoyable, jangly, rough-and-ready novel Revolution Highway. Right off, Simeon makes quick work of establishing the context from which […]
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Up The Barrel
November 13, 2010
(Published earlier in: Outlook Magazine | Nov 22, 2010) Anyone interested in the Naxalite movement will find much to mull over in this enjoyably jangly, rough-and-ready novel by Manjushree Thapa Anyone interested in the Naxalite movement will find much to mull over in Dilip Simeon’s enjoyably jangly, rough-and-ready novel Revolution Highway. Right off, Simeon establishes […]
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Kolkata Launch of ‘Revolution Highway’ on 19 Nov 2010
November 12, 2010
All are invited to the Kolkata launch of the novel Revolution Highway. It’s on 19 November 2010 at 6.30 pm, at the Starmark Bookstore, Emami Market, Lord Sinha Road. Professors Sibaji Bandyopadhay and Supriya Chaudhuri have kindly consented to join Dilip Simeon (the author) in a discussion. Posted below is the invitation.
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In search of a revolution and a commode
November 10, 2010
(Published earlier in: The Asian Age, 7 November, 2010) by Sudhanva Deshpande A shot rings out in the red light district of Sonagachi in Calcutta. A bullet, carrying “its own convoluted history”, undertakes a “swift journey from hibernation to obliteration”. A truck driver bolts, fearing for his life and limb. He curses his khalasi, cleaner. […]
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Book Launch of Revolution Highway by Dilip Simeon, 20 October 2010, New Delhi
October 18, 2010
Book Launch : Revolution Highway (Fiction) by Dilip Simeon Organized by : Penguin Books India Date: Wednesday 20 October 2010 Time: 6.oo p.m. – 9.00 p.m. Venue: M. L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance Francaise de Delhi [Address: 72, Lodi Estate New Delhi – 110003] First fictionalized account of the Naxalite movement of the 1960s and […]
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A Riveting Story Set on the Bumpy Road to a Revolution That Wasn’t
October 17, 2010
(Published earlier in Mail Today, 17 October 2010) by Mukul Mangalik “When truth and love confront one another, we become incapable of even describing our beliefs. How may we speak our truth?” This is a question posed in ‘Dispersal’, a chapter in Revolution Highway, Dilip Simeon’s first novel. It must have been difficult for Simeon […]
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Revolution Highway 
June 2, 2011
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