Book description
Six months in dreary and cold Brussels - and no headway with her
handsome colleague Luc - has convinced systems analyst Seetha, brought
up in 'steamy' Madras, that she must move on. The British Government's
immigration laws allow writers and artists to be granted a visa even if
they have no job, so Seetha decides that she is a writer - and her first
creative assignment is her visa application form. Harish, escaping the
slums of India, has slogged hard in Belgium for the last fourteen years,
and finally has saved enough to fulfil a lifelong dream: watch a cricket
match at Lords in London. Amit seems to have everything - except his
strict father's approval, which he may win if he finds a way to launder
the million his father moved out of India 'during the restrictive years
of Nehruvian socialism'. To Ratnesh, who hates the Indian caste system,
and as a Dalit, plans to seek asylum in the UK, all's fair in love, war,
and getting a visa. Even using the naïve Harish for his own ends. And
across the desk from them all, holding their fate in his hands, is
British visa officer Doug Evans… who himself does not know what is going
to happen at the end of the two days in which these characters lives,
dreams - and visa applications - cross paths.
