SYNOPSIS

COCKTAIL IN THE RAINBOW

MANASH CHOUDHURI

(All the names mentioned in this Novel are fictitious)

 

“COCKTAIL IN THE RAINBOW” is a thrilling Fiction written in English in the background of a cocktail party hosted by Calcutta Regional Office of the Indian Unit of a world famous giant multinational company, Rainbow International, having corporate head quarters in England. The company is diversely engaged in the manufacture of pharmaceutical formulations, bulk drugs, chemicals, diagnostic kits, veterinary medicines, pigments and non-durable consumer products.

Indian Unit i.e. Rainbow India was established by William Anderson, a highly accomplished Britisher who had far sighted vision of making the company topper on the list of pharmaceutical and chemical industries in Indian subcontinent. But his long cherished dream was not fulfilled as he had to go back to England infamously leaving the fate of Rainbow India in the hand of Leonidus Rozario, an Indian with Portuguese lineage and a native of Goa.

Rozario was once the steno-typist of Anderson and gradually became his blue-eyed boy who was elevated step by step to the post of Director of the company. Over ambitious Rozario wanted to become the Managing Director of Rainbow India by ousting his benefactor. He was successful in his evil mission with the help of some ex-colleagues of Anderson in England who were envious of his princely life in India.

The story begins with the visit of Rozario, Managing Director of Rainbow India along with Robert Kelvin, overseas Director of Rainbow International to attend the foundation day celebration of Calcutta Regional office to be followed by gala cocktail and dinner party.

This novel is the saga of love of a young executive with a blind girl and a young sales representative of a rich family with a door-to-door sales girl who fell victim of sex abuse by a District Sales Manager who got promotion to Divisional Manager by sending his wife to sleep with Rozario.

The Novel depicts the vivid picture of the managers and executives who got promotion and better perquisites by sending their wives or girl friends to satisfy the carnal desire of Rozario and his guests.

There are various interesting characters like General Manager (East), a careerist, Divisional Manager, Pharmaceuticals, a most dissatisfied person and an honest Divisional Manager, Home products who was ousted as he could not procure girl to sleep with Rozario.

The story of the cocktail party is narrated to the writer in a railway air conditioned first class coupe during his journey from Howrah station to Patna junction by his co-passenger, one Sumanta Bose, a senior executive of an American company. Sumanta worked in Rainbow as Divisional Manager, Agro chemicals only for a week and attended the cocktail party on the seventh day i.e. his last day in Rainbow. He discovered many characters in the party which started at two hours after the night fall with drinks and ended at three hours before the day break, also with drinks. Never before such novel has been written by any Indian writer regarding a cocktail party as depicted in “THE COCKTAIL IN THE RAINBOW”.