The Dutta’s and their children have lived in Bangladesh all their lives. Despite being a part of the country’s small hindu community, that is terrorized by the muslim fundamentalists, they refused to leave their country.
On 6 December, 1992 the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya in India is demolished by a mob of Hindu fundamentalists.
The world condemns the incident but its fallout is felt acutely in Bangladesh. The nightmare inevitably arrives at Dutta’s doorstep.
Unremittingly dark and menacing, this novel exposes the mindless bloodthirstiness of the fundamentalism and captures the insanity of violence in our times.