East Bengal -- Dandakaranya Rehabilitation Project, food riots and Calcutta -- I run away from home -- My lone travels across east and north India -- On the road for five years -- Return to Kolkata -- My entry into the Naxal movement -- To Dandakaranya and back to a changed Kolkata -- Life on and around the railway station -- A bomb explodes in Bardhhaman -- Into jail and into the world of letters -- A rickshaw-puller's meeting with Mahasweta Devi -- A girl from the past -- Marichjhapi -- Dandakaranya -- Chhatisgarh, Mukti Morcha and Shankar Guha Neogi -- After Shankar Guha Neogi
