num_pages: 220
description: Kolkata in the early Seventies. The City is besieged by the Naxalite movement, which hold its genteel middle class in a thrall of terror. Caught in the crossfire between the destructive power of the naxalite insurgency and the brutal backlash of the police forces counter attacks.
language: English
title: Waiting for Rain
titlecomplete: Waiting for Rain
genres: Contemporary, Fiction, Drama
ratings_count: 110
publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)