New Delhi, March 1 -- Bhaskar Roy's book, Border Crossers, is an elegantly written and haunting novel about displacement, love and loss and, ultimately, the resilience of the human spirit. It weaves together all the big themes of our times: from climate change to migration to growing religious intolerance and violence through the story of Rita (Rabeya), a young Bangladeshi woman, who makes the perilous journey across the border into India, from her coastal village along the river Rupsa. She is fortunate to find employment with the retired Indian diplomat Arijit Basu, who has come back after a distinguished career to settle in a boom town on the outskirts of Delhi where new urban apartments rise amidst the surrounding farmland. Arijit, bac...