Dreams After Darkness: a Search for the Life Ordinary Under the Shadow of 1984

Terrorism post-9/11, the word has become the new unifier of the global village. But what is it that drives seemingly ordinary men and women to guns? What is it that makes them kill or die? Alienation, religion, independence…. these are much flogged cliches, which mystify more, and clarify less. But behind the gun is a son, a father, a husband, an ordinary man. This book is about that human being. It is about people who lived militancy in Punjab. Some drifted into the current unbidden, others willed themselves to it, hurting into the Dark decade with a vengeance.