Editor: Read Chapter IX here. ‘Not sure when I will return. You take care.’ It was the fourth text message Rajesh had sent to Anjali. He had resorted to keeping his phone switched off to conserve its battery. There were no...
Editor: Read Chapter IV here.   Ravi woke up and groggily wondered what time it was. His watch was under his pillow, but it was too dark to see the time. His mobile phone was with Sanket and he could make...
Editor: Read Chapter XV here.   Indradeep and his wife lived in Chistye Prudy, an old and prestigious Moscow neighbourhood, which got its name from Chisty Prud, a large pond which saw boats in summer and ice-skaters in winter. Less than...
Editor: Read Chapter I here. The wireless operator who burst into Rajesh’s tent was panting so much that his words were barely coherent. Rajesh looked up from his laptop with a jerk, a small frown on his forehead, his heartbeat...
Editor: Read Chapter XXXIX here.   Indradeep Ghosh’s call to the DIA’s Director General was put through immediately. ‘What news?’ ‘Sir, I have a pen drive with photos of men undergoing some form of military training and a Tracker for a GPS chip...
Editor: Read Chapter XXVII here.   When a saree clad, working class woman in her early thirties landed up outside Sampat, the building in Chembur where Tarun owned a flat and in which Yaroslav had stayed, the security guards barely stirred...
Editor: Read Chapter XXXIV here.   ‘I won’t agree to any of this,’ Etayya told Rajesh who had a grim look on his face. ‘Mr. Etayya, we are desperate. We need your help. All that we want you to do is to...
Editor: Read Chapter XVII here. Tarun counted twenty ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’ posters, each with pictures of twelve men, before he stopped counting. His heart had stopped when he got a call telling him of the posters that had appeared...
Editor: Read Chapter XLVII here.   Rajesh’s wedding took place in Kochi inside a wedding hall which comfortably seated over a thousand people. It was sweltering hot outside, as might be expected in Kerala in mid-April, but those attending the wedding...
Editor: Read Chapter XXXVIII here.   ‘She’s inside that stall,’ Rajesh was informed when he reached Dadar Railway Station. The entire platform on which the stall was located and both adjacent platforms had been closed to the public. Since Dadar is...

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