When The Vulture Descends

In this work of fiction the main plot deals with the Soviet takeover of India at the height of the cold war and how the forces of the free world fight back. The KGB does this with the help of a fast-rising politician, Raj Kamath, who visualises a new India of his dreams, without hunger and poverty and without the five-star culture imposed on this poor land by the corrupt. But what the Soviets have in store for him is 'Operation Grand Slam'. To the question "Why has the operation been named Grand Slam?", the KGB agent has a simple answer: "Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Afghanistan and now India-Grand Slam!" The eagerness of the Russians was like that of a vulture that slowly circles the sky when far below in some desert or barren land it sees a lone man walking aimlessly to his death. The vulture has patience. As long as it remains high up the man below is safe. When The Vulture Descends captures the ethos of the cold war era, holding a mirror to the world of man as he stood in the dangerous eighties-lost, without moorings, seeking reprieve yet afraid of the next horizon, afraid that evolution might mean extinction.