Vermillion Harvest: Playtime on the Bagh by Reenita M. Hora
…a gripping and darkish historic romance fraught with edge-of-your-seat rigidity.
“If our private freedom is politically suppressed, then how can we ever be free to like one another?”
Vermillion Harvest: Playtime on the Bagh by Reenita M. Hora is a politically charged historic romance that highlights considered one of India’s darkest moments because it particulars the story of two star-crossed lovers decided to defy the percentages.
Discovering Love Towards the Odds
In January 1919 within the metropolis of Amritsar, 18-year-old Aruna Duggal steps into an area eatery and catches eyes with a good-looking, brown-eyed, dimpled man. Ayaz Peermohammed, a feisty activist and regulation scholar, makes an impression on her, flirting and profitable her over together with his Jane Austen references.
As Aruna’s curiosity about Ayaz grows, she considers the potential for Ayaz to be her suitor. However concern that “public scrutiny and wagging tongues would positively maintain an area gent and [her] from actually sharing [their] lives” begins to come up. Whereas Aruna is Anglo-Indian and Hindu (with a British father and Punjabi mom), Ayaz is Muslim. The chances are already stacked in opposition to them.
The Nice Conflict is likely to be over, however political tensions are excessive and nonetheless climbing. Mahatma Gandhi is gaining energy, and the hope that he can information the folks of India towards freedom conjures up even Ayaz to hitch the reason for the Indian Nationwide Congress. For concern of dropping her job educating English at Saint Mary’s College, and her mom’s already-shaky favor, Aruna can’t affiliate with activist causes, regardless of how a lot her attraction to Ayaz grows. And the way can she publicly assist the reason for freedom from the British, when her personal father was a British military officer?
With or with out Aruna at his facet, Ayaz fights for the financial and social upliftment of the Indian folks. However lawmakers and politicians search to quell the trigger Ayaz fights for, figuring out to crush something they deem revolutionary or terrorist acts. Legal guidelines just like the Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act of 1919, referred to as the Rowlatt Act, “gave authorities full energy to imprison with out a trial, and to shoot to kill with out discover.” A massacre is looming on the horizon, and Aruna desires to do the whole lot she will be able to to warn and shield Ayaz.
Because the state of affairs grows dire, activists collect in Jallianwala Bagh to plot a course for peaceable opposition. When Ayaz’s title seems on a watchlist of revolutionaries, and Aruna is understood to affiliate with him, extra than simply their secret love affair is threatened to be uncovered. Then on April 13, 1919, the strain involves a head with unimaginable violence within the Bagh, leaving the neighborhood grieving.
Political Stress and Id Conflicts
Vermillion Harvest is an exploration of battle — political, social and inside. Aruna is torn between loyalty to 2 worlds, two identities that appear to battle — and but she is a part of each of them herself. “No matter choice I made, I’d be judged by one ethnic neighborhood or the opposite, by one spiritual neighborhood or the opposite.” She should study to conflate her personal id with what she is aware of is correct, and with the id and politics of the person she loves.
From sisterly recommendation and variations of opinion from her good friend Amrita, to discrimination and political protests, to eye-opening relationships, Reenita M. Hora has crafted a gripping and darkish historic romance fraught with edge-of-your-seat rigidity. As Aruna and Ayaz battle with the load of the political environment in India, they’re decided to construct a future the place they will dwell peacefully collectively, free from discrimination and turmoil. Is freedom doable? Can love conquer all? How can a brilliant future develop from a darkish previous? Learn Vermillion Harvest and discover out.
About Reenita M. Hora:
Reenita M. Hora brings life to her tales from her South Asian experiences, that includes quirky characters who navigate a rollercoaster of imperfect eventualities – however who refuse to promote out. She’s an editor, author, and script supervisor for notable publications and platforms corresponding to Nationwide Geographic Youngsters, Disney India, Cartoon Community Asia, the New York Occasions, and CNN. Reenita garnered quite a few awards, together with the Eric Hoffer E book Award, the IndieReader Discovery Award, Santa Barbara Worldwide Screenplay Award, Script2Comic, Launchpad, and Rising Screenwriters awards.
She produces two podcasts: the True Fiction Mission (unscripted to scripted), and Shadow Realm (narrative fiction). Lately, LA Weekly dubbed her a ‘high indie writer’ bringing Indian tradition and humor to America.
Reenita inked a Manufacturing Growth settlement for her younger grownup romcom screenplay, Operation Mother. She additionally optioned her unpublished guide, Shadow Realm, and a literary memoir, Ace of Blades. Anticipate her upcoming literary work, Competition of Lights with Harper Collins and her latest work, Vermilion Harvest: Playtime on the Bagh with Indignor Home Publishing.
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Publish Date: 7/15/2024
Style: Historic Fiction, Politics, Romance
Creator: Reenita M. Hora
Web page Depend: 312 pages
Writer: Indignor Home, Inc.
ISBN: 9781953278524