The coward is afraid of visiting a crematorium in the dark fortnight, where the worshipper achieves his goal’, wrote Bhawani Bhattacharya to his brother before he was hanged to death in Rajshahi Jail. They were the heroes, unknown and unsung, who never cared for their own lives or families. They whole-heartedly responded to the country’s call for freedom. Tragically, what followed was a freedom, severed and split. And with this began the struggle for existence by the refugees. There are innumerable stories of the real heroes of the freedom struggle, the political undercurrents in the Congress, Partition, cross-currents over the merger of Kashmir, Cooch Behar and Tripura with India. The political theatre of the subcontinent in the 1940s was fraught with exciting incidents that took place behind the scenes. Much of it still remains unknown. This collection of writings, a must read, is a reservoir of these tales in 560 pages between the covers.