India-40 and the Circle of Demons

<p>In 1966 and 1967 when he was twenty-two years old Peter S. Adler did a two-year stint as a Peace Corps volunteer in a village called Khed halfway between Mumbai and Goa and not far from the Arabian Sea. He and his roommate built schools killed rats and helped start poultry businesses. It was a life-changing coming-of-age journey. But death sickness corruption love friendship political fanatics drugs thugs psychosis and personal palavers with a foul-tempered God who only he could hear were part of the story.</p>