The Lie Between Stations at Marine Drive Again

By Adeeba Rashid

When heritage conservator Yuvan Bhat is offered a bribe to abandon a routine records request at Jaipur's most storied hotel, he knows someone is afraid of what the past holds. As he and an unreliable colleague dig into an unsolved disappearance connecting three powerful families, the evidence grows convincing and the danger grows intimate, folding itself inside dinner invitations and concert rehearsals and the faces of people Yuvan has always trusted. In a building where every wall has been restored at least once, the question is not what was hidden but who is still hiding it, and whether protecting the people you love makes you complicit in their worst acts.