Indian Ink is a newer work by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead author Tom Stoppard. The lyrical comedy takes place in 1930s India as English poet Flora Crewe befriends a widowed painter who struggles to capture her romantic essence. Fifty years later, a biographer tries to piece together Flora’s life from the fragmented pieces of evidence she left behind. This love story is set against one of the great shifts in history, the emergence of the Indian subcontinent from the grip of the British empire.