We Were Never There at the Residency Gate Before Dawn

By Adeeba Rashid

When theatre understudy Rohan Sen accepts a six-week assignment at a sports academy in Chandigarh, he expects routine work and a quiet exit. Then he finds a police evidence label stitched inside a vintage jacket, and a musician named Zara pulls him into the cold case of her missing parent, a case built on biometric data someone deliberately corrupted. As a monsoon storm severs the academy from outside help and unclaimed courier parcels begin to rewrite the accepted timeline of the crime, Rohan must decide how much he is willing to risk for a truth that could destroy the very place where he finally felt he belonged.