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.

Can one understand everything that passes through one’s mind?

Many girls in this village were married off early, much before they reached the legal age for the act, and not just among the poor and low caste people, this was the norm even among the rich and the upper caste.

Lying in bed at night, when all was quiet, aside from the incessant drone of the beetles floating in from the wilderness beyond, Tridib felt the untamed forest inching close.