<p>India has changed. Rehana finds her father&rsquo;s books on medieval history have been &lsquo;disappeared&rsquo; from bookstores and libraries. Her young domestic help, Abdul, discovers it is safer to be called Morari Lal in the street, but there is no such pro&not;tection from vigilante fury for his Dalit friend, Suraj. Kamlesh, a diplomat and writer, comes up against official wrath for his anti-war views. A bomb goes off at Cyrus Batliwala&rsquo;s gallery on the opening day of an art show.</p><p>Presiding over this new world is the Director of Cultural Transformation, whose smiling affability masks a relentless agenda to create a Hindu master race.</p><p>In this atmosphere, Rehana and her three book-club friends, Nandini, Aruna and Lily, meet every week to discuss a book one of them has chosen&mdash;their oasis of peace amidst the harshness of reality&mdash;even as Rehana&rsquo;s German friend, Franz Rohner, haunted by his country&rsquo;s Nazi past, warns her of what is to come. All revolutions, he wryly observes, follow the same path. But is India about to prove him wrong?</p><p>In this brilliant, dystopian satire, Nayantara Sahgal draws a telling portrait of our times.</p>