A Version of the Truth at the Residency Gate During the Rains

By Prashant Mishra

Vihaan Malhotra arrives at a half-built university outside Ahmedabad expecting six quiet weeks of routine work before his real career begins. A cracked second-hand phone changes everything when a hidden camera feed surfaces, pulling him into a conspiracy where missing charity funds, silenced witnesses, and a colleague who knows too much threaten to bury him before he ever gets started. Every receipt he traces and every letter he tries to translate brings him closer to a truth that implicates the one person he chose to trust. In a world where ambition and loyalty cannot both survive the monsoon, Vihaan must decide how much of himself he is willing to sacrifice for a version of the truth that may already be someone else's lie.