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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalYears ago, in a small village in Rajgarhi, a young local girl goes missing. The daughter of the Chief Ministerial candidate commits suicide soon after.
2000
Leela Johar begins her political campaign for Chief Ministership, in the rural state of Rajgarhi. Leela’s nineteen-year-old daughter, Sahana, and her friend, Naina, accompany her; they spend the days volunteering at local schools and helping out with the campaign. But a horrific scandal causes an abrupt end to the political campaign, and Leela disappears from public sight.
2016
Amaya is the daughter of the owner of one of Delhi’s prominent bookshops. Frustrated with her family and caught in a rut, she stumbles into the tangle when she unknowingly gives away a crucial document to a customer — Meera.
Meera, a teenager in her final year of high school, comes across the document, which could change everything. Some people seem to be willing to do anything to get their hands on it. Meera’s parents, investigative journalists, begin to piece Leela’s story together, and realise it has more to do with Leela’s daughter, Sahana, than they had thought.
And Naina seems to be the only link between the past and the present.
Kavya Sahni
Kavya Sahni is a seventeen-year-old student, studying at The Mother’s International School, New Delhi, India. She wrote her first published book, A Day Just for Me, when she was fourteen. Both her books explore the complex relationships in families, and the strength that seemingly ordinary people have to display in the face of adversity.
Kavya has travelled extensively, in India and abroad. Road trips to Rajasthan and the mountains of India have inspired the setting of this book.
Kavya is also a self-taught opera singer, and has been playing the violin — in both Indian and Western classical styles — for more than twelve years.
