Somewhere between the girl she is and the boy the world sees, a revolution is waiting to be fought.
Mani is a teenager with two disguises and one purpose: to serve India's fight for freedom when everything around her insists a girl should do no such thing. As the Indian National Army marches under the banner of Azad Hind, she slips into a world of secrets, false identities and impossible choices — where the sharpest danger is not the enemy, but the fear of being discovered.
Set against the turbulence of the Second World War and the final, desperate push for independence, *The Boy Called Mani* is a gripping story of courage, identity and a young woman who refused to be written out of history — a forgotten chapter of India's freedom struggle, told through the eyes of a girl who dared to step into the shadows.