The Naxalite movement in Bengal is an almost forgotten piece of history that sometimes creeps into movies like Iti Mrinalini and Bhooter Bhabishyat. That spontaneous outpouring of idealistic revolution has been swept away by the Maoist incursions, and Maoists and Naxalites these days have become interchangeable. Jhumpa Lahiri chooses to revisit the original Spring Thunder of the ’60s through meticulous research in her tale of two brilliant brothers—Udayan, the engineer, who becomes a Naxalite, and Subhash, who goes to America to study and ends up in Providence, contemplating the severe lines of narrow churches.