After the huge success of his 1996 book 'Everybody loves a Good Drought', award-winning author-journalist P Sainath is all set to release a new book this November roughly two decades later. Titled 'The Last Heroes: Footsoldiers of Indian Freedom', it tells the inspiring stories of some of India's lesser-known freedom fighters.
Sharing more details about his new book, P Sainath said on social media recently, "Was Independence the gift of a few Oxbridge elites? As Gandhi put it, not great men, but ‘the people themselves are the cause’ of revolutions. My book 'The Last Heroes: Footsoldiers of Indian Freedom' (Penguin) out in November, looks at 16 such people...In the next 5-6 years, there will not be a single person alive who fought for this country’s freedom. Our new generations will never get to meet, see, speak, or listen to India’s freedom fighters. Never directly learn who they were, what they fought for."
