Synopsis "My Father's Ring the Story of a Lost Romance"
'Perhaps I should have asked questions about the ruby ring. What was its story? Wheredid it come from? But, at that young age, and in the societal milieu of the time (wherefathers were somewhat aloof and not to be questioned), I did not...It was only muchlater that I unearthed the significance of the ring, and some of the mysteries it held-alifetime later.'One evening in the early 1950s, when Ajit Singh Dutta was a young boy, hisfather gave him a ring. The ornament with its glowing cabochon ruby mighthave made 10-year-old Ajit curious, but at that age, he did not give it a secondthought, and the ring ended up forgotten, locked in the safe of his mother'salmirah.It was only years later, after his father's death, that the beautiful ring graduallyunfurled its mysteries-a stack of letters in cream-coloured envelopes, familiar piano tunes, a mysterious woman named Louise, and a whirlwindromance caught between competing family loyalties that tried to defy thehurdles of distance and cultural differences.The search-spanning decades-that followed, for a woman whose lovewas reflected in the beauty of the ring and in the intimate letters she wrote, opened up not only an entirely new world for Ajit but also helped himrediscover his own father. He learnt of the passionate 'Raj' who had remainedhidden within Rajinder Singh Datta, the strict father and philosopher that hehad grown up with.Written in evocative prose, this deeply moving, nostalgic story of a lostromance is also a son's unusual and extraordinary tribute to his father.
