Meena Alexander’s Nampally Road is about her discomfiture with the way she found things in India after her colonial education in Britain and the clash of freedoms in the middle of domination. The protagonist Mira Kannadical finds it difficult to accept the patriarchal values of the orthodox Indian society and her much loved and loving mother’s desire to arrange a marriage for her in keeping with the traditions of their community. Mira becomes involved with the politics of Hyderabad, where the Chief Minister is a tyrannical autocrat and has the ‘Orange Sellers of Telegu Desham’ crushed and battered by his khaki uniformed men for taking the liberty to protest against his government. In the middle of this mayhem the novelist perceives that ‘a new India is being born’. The violence takes place at the spot where the statue of Queen Victoria overlooks the Nampally Road. There is bloodshed and discussion about forcing a socio-political change on Marxian lines. A planned short circuit and explosion, when the rhetoric of freedom and liberty is on, lead to massive destruction thereby opening channels for engagement with notions of freedom and social change for the people in a postcolonial society. The present paper, by making Nampally Road a counter for discussion, shall attempt to explore how western notions of freedom, understood or misunderstood, have affected life in India.