Someday, Sravan thought, I ll write a book made up entirely of my deletions. All the things crossed out, the people edited away. Who knows? What s left out might be more important than what s retained. What s not the point may be the real point.
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After a bomb blast rips through Sikandar Chowk Park, Allahabad, killing fifty-seven people, a journalist pieces together the lives of eleven of the dead from the heap of mutilated bodies.
Among them a self-effacing music teacher who won''t g...