Twisted Cue, A

An Anglo-Indian Commanding Officer of an elite Guards battalion is on holiday in Kasauli, a cantonment town in the Shimla Hills, on the eve of international hostilities. Whilst searching for an epitaph in a derelict cemetery for his white forefather’s grave, he sees the need to revivify the Hindu side of his bloodline - which lacks the will to ‘wash down curry with bloody water’ to win battles, as his British ancestors had done while fighting the wars that unified India.Mulkally’s holiday continues in Delhi where he meets Erica Green, a young woman of his own community, and accidentally rekindles a friendship with Narayani, who nursed him for an injury in an earlier war.