The Story of India: Branches of Transition (The Banyan Trilogy, Book 2) (The Story of India: The Banyan Trilogy)

Delhi, a generation after the Partition. The tents are long gone. The cloth stall has become a business, the refugee colony has become a neighbourhood, and the country the Malhotras rebuilt from nothing is racing toward a future none of them planned for.As India throws open its doors to money, television, and ambition, Vikram pushes the family trade into a faster, harder world. Anita writes a newspaper column that says out loud the things the women around her have only dared to think. Fortunes rise. Old certainties crack. A marriage begins to strain under the weight of everything that is changing.And through it all, the price notebook keeps its single daily line. One figure, set down every day, the way it has been since a cloth merchant first opened it across the border in Lahore. Steady, while everything else is remade.This is the story of India in the years it changed the most, told through one Punjabi family trying to keep up without coming apart.Branches of Transition is the second volume of The Banyan Trilogy. It can be read on its own, or as the middle chapter of a family saga that began with Seeds of Freedom. Read more