Rohit Handa

The twice-decorated Lieutenant-Colonel Quintin Reginald ‘Mulkally’ Oxley-Protheroe, an Anglo-Indian Commanding Officer of an elite guards battalion is on holiday in Kasauli, a cantonment town in the Simla hills, on the eve of international hostilities. Whilst searching for an epitaph in a derelict cemetry for his white forefather’s grave, he sees the need to revivify the Hindu side of his bloodline — which lacks the will to ‘wash down curry with bloody ...