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Brinda Charry narrates a Shakespearean odyssey in "The East Indian," set in the colonizing heyday of the British East India Trading Company. Tony, our protagonist, finds himself kidnapped and whisked away to the colonies in America, where he and his fellow indentured servants are forced to work the tobacco plantations. He dreams of a different life, of a community around him, and of becoming a medicine man who can help heal the sick and injured with knowledge of nature. In the early days of the settlement of Jamestown, Tony's life will be full of humor and heartache as he witnesses the birth of a great and terrible new world.

Release date: May 2