THE LAST PRETENCE

Machilipatnam a small town on the Coromandel coast in South India where the British first landed to trade in dyes comes to life through a lively cast of characters - Ammamai resigned to her widowhood but a fighter; Saroja the pseudo-intellectual who owns and runs the Victorian dyes factory; Kamala the eunuch who carries within her a painful past and Raman the mosquito-scientist whose experiment with the malarial insect comes to be known as the Raman Technique. Then there is the ghost of Elizabet...See More