"A Girl on A Train," is a modern day Christian persecution story in Hindu majority India. Father Burns is a Catholic priest of the aggressive kind. He behaves like a company C.E.O and believes in taking Jesus right into Hindu homes. Norine Dunne is his female friend who shares his enthusiasm in spreading the word of god. Shanti is a beggar woman of a different kind. She is a fraud who buys and sells human dead bodies. She takes advantage of the fact that many people belonging to the lower income groups could not afford to cremate their dead. They simply threw the body in the river. People fished these bodies out of the river and sold them to Shanti who took them to the railway station and begged over them. She claimed the dead thing was her dead relative and she did not have money to cremate it. Passengers passing through the railway station felt sorry for her and threw money lavishly into her begging bowl. Father Burns and Norine Dunne manage to convert Shanti to the Christian faith. She is persuaded to stop abusing un-burnt dead bodies bodies. Unfortunately there is a war on. Christians under Father Burns go into overdrive mode in converting Hindu's to the fold. Hindu's fight back under the leadership of a Hindu godman. They go hammer and tongs for the Christians. The newly convert Christian is caught in the cross fire. Will she survive
About the Author: Ashok Kumar Singh was born in 17-11-1957 in north India in the town where George Orwell once lived as an infant. Ashok did his schooling in Mount Hermon School Darjeeling which is run by the Methodist church and is among'st the best mission schools in India. His ancestral village is just 6 miles from Mokameh ghat where Jim Corbett once worked as an officer in the Indian railways. Fifty miles to the north of where he lives is the town where Rudyard Kipling got the idea for his famous Jungle Book. And finally 50 miles to the south east of where he lives is the famous Barabar hills(Marabar hills in the book) which is the focal point of the plot for E M Forster's 'A Passage To India.' Naturally Ashok enjoyed reading these books as they were stories about characters who once lived in his home area. So when he started writing stories, his story telling was greatly influenced by these legends. And folks he unashamedly created new stories by letting his pen flow according to what he felt these legends would have written if they were alive today. This gave birth to the'Great White Hunter, ' series which reminds the reader of Jim Corbetts stories. Ashoks animal books for teen aged children and young adults will remind the reader of Kiplings works