An Indian-British novelist, Booker Prize recipient, and Knight took the stage of the Capitale on the Bowery to tell a story. The year was 1968 and he had the choice of either graduating from Cambridge, or joining the Paris student revolution. He chose the former, and felt lame for choosing to finish his exams over throwing rocks at policemen. So to do something bold he went on a road trip with a "comically large" classmate...