The Tainted

DescriptionThe hills of Nandagiri,1920: the Irish Kildare Regiment is part of the vastmachinery that holds together the British Empire for the Crown of England.Back home in Ireland, the Irish War for Independence is raging and is metwith a ruthless backlash; the Black and Tans-an English paramilitary forceset up to crush Irish dissidents-spread death, indignities and destructionwherever they go.In Nandagiri, Rose Twomey, an Irish-Indian, and Michael, a soldier fromthe Kildare Rangers, fall in love, defying the social norms of the time thatdisapproved of such unions. As news of the Black and Tans' atrocities reachIndia, anger brews among the Irish soldiers against the Crown they've swornto serve, leading to mutiny, arrests, court-martials and executions. Rose andMichael are helpless in the political maelstrom blowing around them that ripsthrough their lives and dreams.Sixty years later, in those very same hills, families torn apart by thoseturbulent decades are forced to reckon with the horrors of the past, heartbreak, loss and alienation, but they may yet, perhaps, finally find healingand belonging.Through a love story spanning an era of Indian and Irish history, The Tainteddescribes the continued disconnect that many Anglo-Indians live in, unable tocome to terms with being unwanted in the country they consider 'home' (theland of their White fathers), the bitterness they pass down to their childrenand their mutually conflicted relationship with a country they are unsurewhether to call their own.