Inside the Blue Attendance Sheet

By Adeeba Rashid

Ayaan Khanna, 23, expects a temporary assignment in a Himalayan homestay village to last only six weeks. Instead, learns that every member of an old group chat has deleted the same week of messages, drawing Ayaan into an investigation with a colleague who may be protecting the culprit. Their search exposes how a wellness app has been selling intimate voice recordings as training data. Suspense builds when an approaching storm cuts the setting off from outside help, forcing them to decide whether to trade the truth for someone else’s safety. A trail built around a rehearsal recording captured by mistake leads to a reversal: solving the mystery forces the protagonist to reveal a secret more damaging than the crime. The emotional counterpoint is an attempt to rebuild a damaged community radio archive, while the collaborator may be feeding information to the opposition.