We Were Never There: A Family Reckoning This Monsoon

By Prashant Mishra

When Avni Kulkarni, a 22-year-old UX designer, is mistaken for a vanished witness in the rain-soaked theatre district of Bengaluru, she is pulled into a conspiracy buried inside a beloved song's master recording. Her younger sibling arrives with secrets, a family engagement threatens to silence everything, and the only evidence she holds could destroy an innocent life. In a city where surveillance algorithms know more than the courts, the truth is not missing, it is hiding in plain sight and it is watching back.