Surviving Heroes is the story of Ramesh Kapur, an Indian officer in the British Army, who fights heroically against the Japanese in Singapore but is eventually taken prisoner. Like his colleagues and his men, Ramesh has to face the impossible choice of whether to remain loyal to the British occupiers of his country or join the Japanese-led Indian Army which has promised to liberate his country but whose murderous nature he has seen at first hand.Based on fact, Surviving Heroes is not merely a story about love and war but displays a sweeping command of pre-Independence Indian history and one man's attempts to come to terms with the ethnical dilemmas that confront him. It is a brilliant debut novel.