Freedom Fighters

Twenty-eight-year-old Har Dayal was a resident of Berkeley who had lived in New Delhi, Oxford, Paris, and Martinique. The roundness of Dayal’s face was matched by a pair of small, perfectly round eyeglasses that framed his beady eyes. He wore his hair parted neatly to one side, kept a neat moustache that was trimmed to fit the center of his face, and dressed in suits just as neat and as fitted. Dayal was considered an intellectual. He taught philosophy at Stanford University. He was an avid reader of Karl Marx and Buddhism and befriended German communists and Punjabi farmers. Despite