The Unsent Invitation of the Blue House

By Prashant Mishra

The story opens after Neil Dutta, 19, inherits a key to a room that does not appear on the building plan in a hill station near Shimla. As a community organiser, Neil 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 a supposedly spontaneous romance was designed as a marketing campaign. Their alliance fractures when the online mob turns on the protagonist. With a rehearsal recording captured by mistake as the last verifiable lead, Neil must trust the person whose lie began the investigation, only to learn that the protagonist’s first assumption protected the real culprit. Away from the main investigation, the need to stage a student election debate, while a festival deadline leaves no room for delay.