<p>Description</p><p>The hills of Nandagiri,1920: the Irish Kildare Regiment is part of the vast</p><p>machinery that holds together the British Empire for the Crown of England.</p><p>Back home in Ireland, the Irish War for Independence is raging and is met</p><p>with a ruthless backlash; the Black and Tans-an English paramilitary force</p><p>set up to crush Irish dissidents-spread death, indignities and destruction</p><p>wherever they go.</p><p>In Nandagiri, Rose Twomey, an Irish-Indian, and Michael, a soldier from</p><p>the Kildare Rangers, fall in love, defying the social norms of the time that</p><p>disapproved of such unions. As news of the Black and Tans' atrocities reach</p><p>India, anger brews among the Irish soldiers against the Crown they've sworn</p><p>to serve, leading to mutiny, arrests, court-martials and executions. Rose and</p><p>Michael are helpless in the political maelstrom blowing around them that rips</p><p>through their lives and dreams.</p><p>Sixty years later, in those very same hills, families torn apart by those</p><p>turbulent decades are forced to reckon with the horrors of the past,</p><p>heartbreak, loss and alienation, but they may yet, perhaps, finally find healing</p><p>and belonging.</p><p>Through a love story spanning an era of Indian and Irish history, The Tainted</p><p>describes the continued disconnect that many Anglo-Indians live in, unable to</p><p>come to terms with being unwanted in the country they consider 'home' (the</p><p>land of their White fathers), the bitterness they pass down to their children</p><p>and their mutually conflicted relationship with a country they are unsure</p><p>whether to call their own. </p>