Using the method of a historical non-linear narrative, a woman participant in the Naxalbari/Naxalite movement of the late 1960s/early 1970s recounts a number of incidents from those tumultuous days from a feminist perspective. For the then member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) those events suggest that the history of the movement would have been different had the feminist question of equality been dealt with more objectively.