This unusually prescient novel is set in the early post-Independence years, when
a new republic eagerly looks forward to a future full of hope. Rakesh, a Foreign
Service officer who had grown up at a time when young men were ardent
nationalists, returns to Delhi after a six-year absence to find many changes. He
meets the new Advisor on Foreign Affairs, the controversial Kalyan Sinha, and is
once again drawn to the magnetic personality of the politician whose ruthless
manipulations are, in a way, a precursor to the moral corruption of the years to
come. Vintage Sahgal, This Time of Morning is a riveting work of