This Time of Morning is set in the early post-Independence years, when a new republic eagerly looked forward to a future full of hope. Rakesh, a young foreign service officer who grew up at a time when young men were ardent nationalists, returns to Delhi after a six-year absence to find many changes. He meets the new Adviser on Foreign Affairs, the controversial Kalyan Sinha, and is once again drawn to the magnetic personality of the politician whose ruthless manipulations are, in a way, a precursor of the moral corruption in the years to come.

A rivettingly prescient novel.