{"id":2297,"date":"2016-11-22T22:57:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T17:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fableandi.com\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2020-03-04T22:20:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:50:35","slug":"gospel-yudas-k-r-meera-love-allegiance-political-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/gospel-yudas-k-r-meera-love-allegiance-political-turmoil\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gospel of Yudas by K. R. Meera – Love and Allegiance in Political Turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Gospel of Yudas<\/em> is the story of a Naxalite burdened by guilt and a girl who falls madly in love with him.<\/p>\n
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In Brief<\/h3>\n
The Gospel of Yudas<\/em> takes place in a riverside in Kerala. The Naxalite movement has weakened while the people who were involved in it still bear the brunt. Prema, daughter of a former policeman who tortured Naxalites during the Emergency is attracted to Yudas, nicknamed Crocodile Yudas. He earned his nickname because of his vocation \u2013 recovering dead bodies from the river. For Prema, Yudas is not a mere infatuation in her fifteen-year old mind. She sees him as her key to freedom from her family and kin. However Yudas laughs it off as child\u2019s play when he comes to know of it. Prema\u2019s stubborn mind nurtures her obsession with the ex-Naxalite and fires up her admiration for him as she grows older. Yudas has secrets of his own that weigh him down from leading a normal life. Slowly we are introduced to his old political comrades and how he is plagued with the guilt that he gave their names when the police brutally assaulted him. Prema tries to free him from the burden of guilt that he carries and in doing so attempts to find for herself what freedom is.<\/p>\n