Heroes the Colour of Dust

Everything in this book is absolutely true including the things that happened the things that didn't really happen and the things that would have happened if history had been more interested in telling an exciting tale!Gandhi and his followers intend to set out on their long walk to Dandi to protest a salt tax but little do they know of the dangers that stand in their way. They mustn't despair for a group of fearless sparrows are ready for self-sacrifice and derring-do. They've made a resolution you see to protect Gandhi from any foe-bird mutt or Britisher.Open this book to join the ranks of the Mahatma's Guards-heroes six with India's greatest poet in the mix-as their adventure takes wing! About the Author AMIT MAJMUDAR is a diagnostic nuclear radiologist who lives in Westerville Ohio with his wife and three children. He is the author of three volumes of poetry most recentlyDothead. His first collection0° 0° was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award his secondHeaven and Earth was selected for the 2011 Donald Justice Prize. His work has appeared in theNew York TimesNew YorkerBest of the Best American Poetry and many other publications including the eleventh edition ofThe Norton Introduction to Literature. He blogs for theKenyon Review and is also a critically acclaimed novelist.