Behind the Glass Noticeboard

By Adeeba Rashid

The story opens after Armaan Suri, 19, is named as beneficiary in the will of someone they never met in a hill station near Shimla. As a food blogger, Armaan knows how easily facts can be edited, but not why a colleague who may be protecting the culprit seems determined to help. Together they uncover evidence that the evidence against the accused was generated from compromised biometric data. Their alliance fractures when a powerful sponsor threatens everyone’s livelihood. With a rehearsal recording captured by mistake as the last verifiable lead, Armaan must protect a family member who may be guilty, only to learn that the most convincing evidence was true but belonged to a different crime. A parallel thread follows the effort to record oral histories before a neighbourhood is redeveloped, while a festival deadline leaves no room for delay.