Railsong by Rahul Battacharya sri Lanka Artists But the creation of this

But the creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional international trading corporation dealing in silks and spices and became something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business

Peter Allen

Set in a land ruled by an oppressive military regime

He is the presiding deity of material wealth and the lord of spirituality

Railsong by Rahul Battacharya sri Lanka Artists But the creation of thisIn a young country charged with national vigour, Charu, the motherless child of a railway worker, pines for a life freed of oppressive domesticity. As diesel engines replace steam, and the calamitous churn of drought, famine, strike chokes the railway township, she dares to imagine a different future for herself. Boarding a train she flees westwards to Bombay, even as the country rumbles towards Emergency. In the frenetic landscape of the great modern