You assume, my friend, that both of us are alive now...

An interview with Richard Zimler, the author of Guardian of the Dawn, a novel detailing Portuguese inquisitions in 1400s and 1500s Goa. This is a little known or researched aspect of Indian history. The cruelty of the Portuguese (for purely religious reasons) has gone unnoticed in all the noise abt Partition, Mughal rule, British colonialism, etc.

The novel itself is a gripping account of Jews fleeing persecution in Europe and the climate of all-round suspicion created by the inquisitions.