Dangerlok

Rina Ferreira middle-aged and single lecturer in English literature tentative poet owner of two parrots and a flat in Queens Diamonds building. Daily she comes across some dangerlok autorickshaw-walas who clog her lane the neighbour who objects to the kept woman in the flat below hers students who wonder if she has any friends people who ask if shes Indian. Fortified with cigarettes and junglee tea Rina observes them all and dashes off letters brimming with the details of her Bombay-life to an old flame who calls up to talk about his girlfriends when sober and to profess his love for her when drunk. About the Author Eunice de Souza was born in Pune. She studied English literature in India and the Unified States and later taught the subject at St. Xavier's College Bombay for Over thirty years. Her published works include the novels Dangerlok (2001) and Dev & Simran (2003) and four hooks of poems including Fix (1979) Women in Dutch Painting (1988) and Ways of Belonging (1990). She has also written books for children and edited several anthologies Her work has been translated into Portuguese Italian and Finnish.