Written in easy English, Freedom Fear and Fortune is a historical novel set in India between 1900 -1940. It traces the lives of two seventeen year old boys, Mohan Rai and Prashant Singh, who involuntarily get caught in the roits at Khalsa College, Amritsr. As a result destiny parts these friends, and takes them in opposite directions. They meet again - the one after many trials and tribulations, the other having soared high - but both have changed.