From the Book - First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Prologue : good days are coming soon
Rabi : spring, 2014. An accusation is made ; Lalli's father buys a phone ; Cousin Manju observes something strange ; Nazru sees it too ; Unspeakable things ; The naughty boy ; The invisible women ; Lalli asks for a memento ; The fair comes to the village ; Padma Lalli, gone ; Thieves in the tobacco ; Where are they? ; Every eight minutes ; Jeevan Lal's secret ; Adrenaline in the fields, tears at home ; Nazru changes his story, again ; 'Bastards, go look for them yourselves' ; A finger is pointed ; Sohan Lal storms out ; Finally, news ; 'An unspeakable sight' ; A policeman's suspicion ; The poster child for a new India ; A reporter's big break ; 'The matter will end' ; The first politician arrives ; The matter should be settled ; Someone to solve their problems ; The politician's aide ; 'Liars, thieves, and fucking scum' ; Cable wars in the Katra fields ; Complaints are written, then torn ; The bodies come down ; A sweeper and a 'weaker' doctor ; The post-mortem ; Farewell Padma Lalli
Kharif : summer, 2014. The worst place in the world ; The women who changed India ; The zero tolerance policy ; A broken system exposed ; Separate milk from water ; A red flag ; The villagers talk ; The false eyewitness ; Purity and pollution ; A post-mortem undone ; 'Habitual of sexual intercourse' ; A mother goes 'mad' ; Visitors to the jail ; The case of the missing phones ; The truth about the phone ; 'She is all I have' ; 'There is no need to go here and there' ; 'Did you kill Padma and Lalli?' ; 'Machines don't lie' ; 'Have you ever been in love?' ; DROWNED ; Results and rumours ; The rogue officer ; Friends, not strangers ; Pappu and Nazru faces to face ; 'Girls are honour of family' ; Pappu in jail, the Shakyas in court
Epilogue. Birth ; Rebirth ; Love, hope, vote.