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It s the late 1980s and Anirban Roy fresh from the dustbowls of Inner India arrives on an alternative planet called JNU. Here Marx rules the graffiti the pamphlets and the suggested reading list. But Freud at least his sex thing rules most minds. Anirban has a fixed goal get through the civil services . Every day he hurries through his ablutions eats a slippery fried egg w It s the late 1980s and Anirban Roy fresh from the dustbowls of Inner India arrives on an alternative planet called JNU. Here Marx rules the graffiti the pamphlets and the suggested reading list. But Freud at least his sex thing rules most minds. Anirban has a fixed goal get through the civil services . Every day he hurries through his ablutions eats a slippery fried egg with a half-burnt toast quickly scans The Hindu the preferred newspaper of long-term civil services aspirants stuffs a notebook into his jhola and sets out to attend his classes. He certainly harbours no lofty Leftist ideals nor any grand political ambitions. But JNU has other plans for him the student elections and heartbreak. Up Campus Down Campus is an exuberant celebration of JNU s uniqueness. With refreshing honesty and humour Avijit Ghosh maps the aspirations raging hormones and moral conflicts of small-town boys like Anirban who arrive in city campuses every year eager to build a life and perhaps also find love. About the AuthorAvijit Ghosh works as a senior editor for The Times of India in New Delhi. Born in Agartala he grew up in the small towns of Arrah and Ranchi. He graduated in history from St Xavier s College Ranchi and earned his Master s and MPhil degrees from JNU New Delhi. A journalist for more than twenty-five years he has written extensively on Hindi cinema and sports. He has also briefly been a film critic for The Telegraph and The Times of India. His previous works include Bandicoots in the Moonlight a bildungsroman set in 1970s small-town Bihar and Cinema Bhojpuri which won the Special Mention for Best Writing on Cinema in the 2010 National Film Awards. His third book 40 Retakes Bollywood Classics You May Have Missed revisits a bunch of movies that have fallen through the cracks of our memory. Avijit is addicted to films music football and cricket not

It s the late 1980s and Anirban Roy fresh from the dustbowls of Inner India arrives on an alternative planet called JNU. Here Marx rules the graffiti the pamphlets and the suggested reading list. But Freud at least his sex thing rules most minds. Anirban has a fixed goal get through the civil services . Every day he hurries through his ablutions eats a slippery fried egg w It s the late 1980s and Anirban Roy fresh from the dustbowls of Inner India arrives on an alternative planet called JNU. Here Marx rules the graffiti the pamphlets and the suggested...  Read More