CALCUTTA EXILE
Calcutta, 1959. . . a time when the city's social and cultural maosaic included Indians, the British and Anglo-Indians, who belonged to neither community but claimed kinship with the English.The Ryans are a typical middle-class Anglo-Indian family. The head of the family, Robert, a senior executive with a managing agency, has dreams of going home to England as soon as he can. His wife, the beautiful Grace, however, is unsure about leaving her comfortable life in india. Their two daughters, Shirley and Paddy, are meanwhile discovering new emotions and relationships which will make them cross invisible but inflexible boundaries. The Ryan household also includes Ayah and her husband Apurru, a middle-aged Muslim couple who are making their own plans to go home, to an East Pakistan they have never seen. Also working in the same agency house as Robert is Ronen Mookerjee, the anglicized misfit son of a barrister who belongs to the Bengali landed gentry.