This short story collection explores the slice-of-life vignettes of middle class and working class life across the Hindi heartland, with special focus on the women and their interiority.

So many people have been away from their homes and villages in this distant land for their stomachs! Then, who stays in the places they have left behind?

The word ‘human’ seemed like a pool of spit on my face, or perhaps a tight slap that was named human.