Bad Karma Author:Deborah Blum A True Story of Obsession and Murder: — It's Berkeley, 1968, and amidst the turmoil and tumult, two young loners find each other and begin a relationship that will lead to obsession, horror and finally murder. Prosenjit, an Indian untouchable who has risen light-years beyond his wildest imaginings from a tiny undeveloped village to a place in Be... more »rkeley's Masters in Naval Engineering program, meets Tanya, a lovely but insurcure local junior college student from a disturbed home. What is for her an egosatisfying casual flirtation becomes for him a singleminded, inescapable and ultimately, insane love affair. We watch with a mounting sense of fascination and horror as Prosenjit gradually loses complete touch with reality, beginning his downward spiral into madness. Eventually he begins to stalk Tanya and with the inevitability of Greek tragedy, takes his obsession one final, fatal step further.« less