Waiting for Rain — Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay

In the Kolkata of the early 1970s, the naxalite insurgency holds the city in thrall. Somsundar, an unemployed youth, and Manju, a young woman brought up in the protected environment of the upper middle class, wrestle with reality and change as the city, gripped by a symbolic drought, waits desperately for rain