India, March 8 -- The Rainbow Runners is a novel about violence, trauma, life and rediscovery. The story begins on an evening when the protagonist, Sriman, goes strolling along the sand banks of the Brahmaputra. He loves to feel the soft sand on his feet and the evening breeze on his cheeks, his eyes set on the rapidly changing colours of the darkening sky. But on that evening, as he sits trance-like inside a sandpit soaking in the serene ambience, he witnesses a cold-blooded murder....