The Quarantine Papers
As the Babri Masjid is razed in Ayodhya, brick by ancient brick, Ratan
Oak stumbles upon a corpse at the Kipling House in Bombay. It is the
beginning of an unraveling for him, of the submerged identity he has
sought to suppress all his life: that of his great-grandfather, Ramratan
Oak.
Grappling with this tandem existence, Ratan realizes that the communal
violence which consumes his city mirrors the turbulence it experienced
in Ramratan's times. For, concealed in the scientific discoveries of the
plague epidemic of 1897 is the terrifying truth about the dead woman of
Kipling