Song of Kali

The journalist and poet Robert Lusack received an assignment from his magazine’s editorial office to go to India, where he must obtain for publication in America the manuscript of a poem by M. Das, a well-known Indian poet, one of the disciples of Rabindranath Tagore and a continuator of the literary tradition founded by him. For this trip, Robert had to take along his wife, Amrita, who was born in India and will be his translator, and a small, six-month-old daughter, Victoria.

Lusack is an educated man; prejudices and superstitions are alien to him. But the very first day spent in Calcutta completely threw him off balance… And then events around the manuscript and around Das himself—by the way, Das has been missing for eight years—take an extremely frightening and horrifying turn. Shocked by all the horrors and filth he sees in Calcutta, Bobby understands very clearly: this dirty, plague-ridden city has no right to exist. In Bobby’s opinion, Calcutta is nothing other than a giant container of evil. And the root cause and source of this evil is the arrogant and cruel goddess Kali—whose name, in fact, this ancient city owes…