Rhythms Of Darkness

This is the story of the girl whose name means darkness. A girl from the backwaters of Bengal, who gets swept up in the revolution or at least into the arms of the man who was for her the revolution. Too dark to be marriageable, too dark to dance in plain sight. But not too dark to provide cover for those militant forces infiltrating the villages and working against the government. Her dancing politics catapults her to the top echelons of Bengali power structure... and then into self-imposed exile.

About the Author
Anjana Basu works as an advertising consultant in Kolkata. Her poems have featured in anthologies published by Penguin India and Authorpress. Her short stories have appeared in international journals such as Gowanus, The Blue Moon Review, and Recursive Angel, amongst others. She is the author of the bestselling novel, Black Tongue, and also Curses in Ivory and Chinku and the Wolfboy. She has worked on scripts with director, Rituparno Ghosh, for Antarmahal and The Last Lear, and has subtitled several of his films including Unishe April, Dahan, and Chokher Bali.