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Threshold of Rebellion
At two o'clock in the morning, the bus returning with the cast arrived at the university.
Suddenly the headlights flashed onto a barricade of old barrels across the lane, and three guards stopped the bus.
"Sir, didn't you hear?"
"No, what happened?"
"Yesterday evening.... Mr. Henry, ....shot dead ."
"No!"
They remained in stunned silence.
"We were in Colombo with the play...we didn't hear"
Then one of the guards turned around slowly and pointed towards the Senate House, which glowed as if a great fire was beyond it.
"...and then this happened .... at about midnight."
"What.... happened?"
"Sir,....ten boys and a girl,.....they have been beheaded,... and they are burning on a pyre of tyres."
Contents
CONTENTS
Chapter
Foreword i
Introduction vii
1. Her Secret Lover 1
2. Bastions of Frustration 16
3. Vigil over Decadence 33
4. Blood Wedding or Nothing 46
5. Web of a Vague Poetess 64
6. A Mockery to his Memory 83
7. Fiddlers on a Burning Campus 100
8. Threshold of Rebellion 121
9. The Play goes on 141
10. Branded as Traitors 160
11. A Republic on its Knees 178
12. The Stage is Empty 199
13. Pied-Piped to the Grave 214
14. They were singing the Hymn 231
About the
Author 239
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