Reenita M Hora’s ‘Vermilion Harvest: Playtime at the Bagh’: Love in Amritsar, 1919
The book asks whether love can survive when history turns brutal
Updated At : 07:16 AM May 08, 2026 IST
Vermilion Harvest: Playtime at the Bagh by Reenita M Hora. Jaico Books. Pages 267. Rs 499
Set against one of the most devastating moments of India’s colonial past, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919, this novel frames history around an intimate story of love tested and ultimately damaged by political violence. The narrative weaves imagined lives into documented events to explore questions of belonging, resistance and the human cost of imperial rule.
