Electric Dust and Other Truths

This collection began not with an idea, but with a noise.The clanging of steel cups at a roadside stall. The yawn of a bus braking too hard. The furious whisper of a politician's denial. The deadpan bark of a watchman who speaks five languages and is invisible in all of them.These stories were written in the cracks — between headlines and footnotes, in auto rickshaws and overheard conversations, a...