Divya Menon

Dans Calcutta déchiré par la guerre dans les années 1940, Byomkesh Bakshy, fraîchement sorti de l'université, s'oppose à un génie maléfique qui cherche à détruire le monde.

A contemporary who-dunnit, with a splash of supernatural, set in a college campus somewhere in India (a la Indian Institute Of Technology) where a few mysterious deaths occur and the only common link between the victims is that, seconds before their deaths, they all accepted a 'facebook friend request' from a certain profile page of Mona_Darling. The person behind the said page, Mona happens to be missing. Her friend, and a fellow student, Sarah recruits the help of a classmate, Wiki - a borderline sociopathic genius. This odd-couple of amateur sleuths carry on their investigation as the story leads them into unexpected corners and terrifying revelations. It's a pacy thriller, confined to limited locations on one single campus, populated by fresh, sexy, young characters that can be executed on a fairly shoestring budget. More importantly it captures the present zeitgeist of young India and its obsession with social networking.

Malti Mhaske is accused of murdering her high class owner, Kavya. Tara is defending Malti against the state in the courtroom. In a case that is hard to win Tara brings forth the subdued mental state of a physically abused "at the hands of her former caretaker" Malti. As the case unfolds so do complexities of the lives of Malti and her owner.