Stealing Green Mangoes
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Stealing Green Mangoes

Two Brothers, Two Fates, One Indian Childhood

  1. 239 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Stealing Green Mangoes

Two Brothers, Two Fates, One Indian Childhood

About this book

"The poignant memoir of two brothers raised under the dark shadow of Indian Partition" before one becomes a Los Angeles cop and the other a terrorist ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review) Sunil Dutta is a twenty-year veteran of the LAPD. He was also a biologist and a translator of classic Indian poetry. But before that, he was a refugee of the genocidal violence that followed the Partition of India. While Sunil eventually escaped to a new life, his brother Raju took a different path. Raju was arrested, fled the law, and became a fugitive. Then he became a terrorist. Later in life, facing Stage IV lung cancer, Sunil tried to understand how he and his brother found themselves on such radically different paths. In Stealing Green Mangoes, Dutta takes us from his childhood home in Rajasthan to the streets of southeastern Los Angeles, attempting to uncover what it was that tore him and Raju apart. A memoir with sweeping, spiritual ambitions, Stealing Green Mangoes asks probing questions about surviving trauma, crossing borders, and how we become who we are.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 1: News From France
  8. 2: Raja Park
  9. 3: The Exile
  10. 4: A Maharaja in Raja Park
  11. 5: A Jaipur Romance
  12. 6: Falling Out
  13. 7: The Dangerous Game: Raju With Khalistanis
  14. 8: Must Love End in a Tragedy?
  15. 9: Flight of Love Across the Oceans
  16. 10: Science, Idealism, Disillusion, and the Search for Meaning
  17. 11: The First Day
  18. 12: Victims as Killers
  19. 13: Criminals? Victims? Do We Have a Choice?
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. About the Author
  22. Copyright
  23. About the Publisher