JAISHREE MISRA
Secrets and Lies
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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This book is dedicated to all my girlfriends, but most
especially Qubra, who never minded that I regularly swiped her lunch back at school…
With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipt maiden And many a lightfoot lad. By brooks too broad for leaping The lightfoot lads are laid; The rose-lipt girls are sleeping In fields where roses fade.
A.E. Housman
Contents
DELHI,