Bombay Swastika swings from a\n Nazi Berlin gearing up for its Final Solution, to 1964 Bombay, where Ernst\n Steiger, a German Jew, accidentally finds himself caught up in the murder of\n a young tribal, killed amidst allegations of something being stolen from a\n secure American compound. With the monsoons laying siege on the city, the\n reader accompanies Ernst past Bombay’s refugee camps and haunted whorehouses;\n food shortages, textbook mafias, communist protests against American PL 480\n Food Aid, and peculiar happenings at India’s nuclear facility; where Dr. Homi\n J. Bhabha, the nation’s atomic mastermind, gets drawn into a conspiracy\n hatched in his absence. This one-of-a-kind thriller unfolds through the eyes\n of a motley cast-Salim Ali, the South Indian, Muslim engineer and committed\n Marxist; Bhairavi, the enigmatic and sensual refugee girl; Sethji, the dowry\n messiah; Tsering Tufan-Homi Bhabha’s Smiling Buddha-dying from radiation\n exposure; and Andhi Ma, the blind mendicant who sees what we can’t. Bombay\n Swastika is an exploration of the dark world of absolute truths. \n