Prologue It sneaks in before you detect it! A somnolence riddled with the smell of acid rain on rusted pipes and the quiet damage of chemical wounds on soil that knows not how to heal. It arrives like a warning,…

Chapter 1. Alisha unlocked the key to her one-bedroom flat in Garchha and slopped down on a chair. The night breeze trickled in through the window refreshing her damp skin. Summer in Kolkata wrung the last bit of energy from…