The Curse: A Dystopian Thriller

A tribal woman’s curse sets off a series of betrayals and bloody confrontations. But it has also given Jwaala and her allies the means to reform the political diaspora of the Republic of Bodh. Even as the Republic spirals into a storm of scandals, President Chaupat is torn between his lust for a dancer and unrequited passion for his wife Kaamini.
Daulat believes in transactional relationships. He is out to buy the Republic’s politicians to establish a business empire. Jwaala, along with Shikhar and Guruji, becomes the main obstacle to the realisation of his ambition. Then there is Saaya’s ominous spectre looming large on his horizon. But it is the curse that haunts him and his cronies. The same curse goads Saaya to become an implacable killing machine with a mission to kill the President and overthrow the government.
Will Jwaala turn the dead tribal woman’s curse into a prophetic blessing for the Republic’s underprivileged? Will Saaya destroy the evil empire of the greedy and the corrupt?

Set in the imaginary Republic of Bodh, ‘The Curse’ is a tragicomic thriller that ends in a bloody denouement.