BAD KARMA A True Story of Obsession and Murder

Hardback. Prosenjit Poddar wanted nothing more than to return to his native India a big success and to marry a woman of his parents' choosing. Tanya Tarasoff just wanted somebody to love. If only it could have been that simple. It's Berkeley, 1968, and amidst the turmoil and tumult, two young lovers find each other and begin a relationship that will lead to obsession, horror, and finally, murder. Prosenjit, an Indian untouchable who has risen light-years beyond his wildest imaginings from a tiny undeveloped village to a place in Berkeley's Masters in Naval Engineering program, meets Tanya, a lovely but insecure local junior college student from a disturbed home. What is for her an ego-satisfying casual flirtation becomes for him a singleminded, inescapable, and ultimately, insane love affair. We watch with a mounting sense of fascination and horror as Prosenjit gradually loses complete touch with reality, beginning his downward spiral into madness. Eventually he begins to stalk Tanya and, with the inevitability of Greek tragedy, takes his obsession one final, fatal step further. A true-crime drama - the anatomy of a madness. Cultures and expectations clash in this love story of two innocents caught in an inexorable web of their own creation. Illus. + Epilogue. 311pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in sl. creased Vg. dw.