Born in a small town, the protagonist grows up amidst the changing faces of ugliness, poverty and corruption at the grassroots of independent India. After a stint with unemployment he struggles between odd jobs before being drawn, by fate and circumstance, to the career of a detective agent. On an assignment in Calcutta he meets his Guru who guides him on the right path. Following the divination he plunges headlong into politics and emerges stronger than he has ...