Chapter XXV The Indian common krait was sleeping peacefully under a rock all through the day. The monsoon is a bad time for snakes as their habitat is completely disturbed. This one too was biding its time. In the night, it would emerge fr... [More]

Chapter XXVI Day Four During the latter half of the night, it stopped raining. Seeta woke up to check on Chand. She saw that although he was breathing regularly, his breathing was becoming increasingly laboured. He was moaning with th... [More]

Chapter XXVII “I want to know what your policemen are doing to find my daughter,” Said Carmen to the Chief I.G. of police. She had come to his office at exactly thirty minutes past nine a.m., accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Tripathi. Her anger m... [More]

Chapter XXVIIII The SAR team made very good progress during the first three hours of the day. By 10 a.m., the convoy had reached the point beyond which there was no motorable road. The buses and the trucks would stop here. Most of the civili... [More]

PART THREE THE DENOUMENT CHAPTER XXIX The medics were out of their jeep within the next minute. A quick questioning took them to Chand, Yash and Inspector Dubey. They called the helicopter pilots and assistants to help take these... [More]

Chapter XXX One year later Vijay and Carmen opened a new branch of their antiques business in New Delhi, India. It is doing well. Farhad’s proposal was rejected by Nazima’s parents as well as Nazima, who recently got married to a mil... [More]