Papiya Das

Asphyxiating the Goddess Papiya Das

What happens when love at first sight, is actually love at first fleeting glance? What would someone do, and how far would someone go, to achieve that fleeting love? In colonial British India, a lowly highwayman falls in love with a white memsaab... And he is willing to do whatever it takes, to get to her. Not the best of ideas, considering he, a recently escaped slave, was wanted by the law, as well as being on the run after a spate of crimes by his gang of Thuggees.'Asphyxiating the Goddess' delves into forbidden territory in a time when race relations were taboo, and punishable by death. Death though, is only a beginning for these hardened criminals. That is until, love blossoms like a flower in a wilted desert. This is the dark, erotic and romantic tale of the Thuggee who fell in love with a goddess beyond his grasp...