: ‘Fascism is never static, it always reinvents itself’: TD Ramakrishnan, author of the novel ‘Alpha’ #IndiaNEWS Award-winning Malayalam author TD Ramakrishnan didn’t write his first novel

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‘Fascism is never static, it always reinvents itself’: TD Ramakrishnan, author of the novel ‘Alpha’ #IndiaNEWS
Award-winning Malayalam author TD Ramakrishnan didn’t write his first novel until he was 42. In 1992, while working as a guard in the railways, he found his thoughts running wild sometimes. There was a lot of time on his hands too. From Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms in China to the fall of Soviet Union, Ramakrishnan read everything possible to understand the philosophical dimensions of human behaviour. His keen interest in economic reforms took seed in the form of the fictional narrative that is Alpha, in which thirteen scholars embark upon a human experiment to leave their life in India behind to live on an anonymous island as primitive human beings for 25 years. Alpha has been translated into English by Priya K Nair. Ramakrishnan spoke to Scroll.in about his novel, his political philosophy, and more. Excerpts from the interview:Where did your inspiration for Alpha come from?In the ’70s, when I was a college student, the Soviet Union was a land of promise – a land where all problems had a solution. I too was captured by that dream. But towards the beginning of the ’90s, the Soviet Union collapsed, which came as a huge shock for people like me who believed that socialism was a practical...Read more

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