This second volume in the collected fictions of Kurt Steiner contains another two misadventures featuring foolish and full of themselves Europeans who take the predatory eye of assertive and powerful subcontinent women. The first of our two interludes of male-fallibility and the human bondage it leads to is “Enslaved in Kolkata”, a cautionary tale that is as engrossing as it is perversely erotic in its description of Subcontinent female-dominance and the Englishman who finds himself powerless before it… A particularly smug and superior example of Anglo-Saxon manhood who travels to Kolkata from the UK to take receipt of his inheritance from a recently deceased aunt… And finds her former maids have no intention of EVER allowing him to return. Mr Steiner’s second misadventure, “White Slave in Hyderabad”, describes how one Englishman’s self-inflicted misfortunes during his time working in the Indian State of Telangana and, more specifically, Hyderabad, place him firmly under the control of his younger neighbour, Shreya… And NOT as a lover!... That, his new Indian “Maalkin” explains, is NOT something he will ever be again… Except in a somewhat diminished and mostly one-way form. Kurt Steiner is a writer who spent his formative years in India but is now based in Falmouth on Cornwall’s south-coast. He is the author of the female-led classics, “The Inferior” and “Serving Sreelatha”.