An Alternative Rebellion

Ten Incarna-

- By RUTVIK BHANDARI

We grew up hearing stories of the quest for an independent India, of the atrocities of the Raj, the crack of the lathis on protestors’ backs, the arrests, the hunger strikes, and the stubborn courage of our forefathers who fought so we could govern ourselves and live in peace.

But what if their efforts had failed? What if the British never left? Vaishnavi Patel’s Ten Incarnations of Rebellion brings forth a narrative rooted in these very questions. It follows Kalki Divekar, a child of Kingston—a city the Britishers built on the ashes of Bombay—and the journey she goes on to take down the empire from within.