The Rain Archive of the Empty Stadium

By Prashant Mishra

When podcast producer Samar Joshi spots a supposedly missing stranger lurking in the background of a Delhi university hostel livestream, he knows the image could be edited but cannot explain why his own colleague seems suspiciously eager to help him investigate. As Samar digs into a hospital trial that continued long after researchers knew of a deadly side effect, every professional alliance becomes a trap and every discovery is shadowed by an anonymous account that already knows what he is about to find. Caught between exposing the truth and protecting someone whose safety depends on his silence, Samar must finally decide whether belonging to a world of power is worth the secret he has buried inside himself.