TISHNAGI

In a mid-tier Delhi university where everyone is performing a version of themselves they can't afford to believe in, seven students orbit each other like dying stars-drawn together by gravity, burning each other by proximity.

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The pretending is the trauma. And the trauma is the thirst.

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A literary novel about the violence of being seen, the violence of being unseen, and the particular hunger of a generation that was promised everything and taught to want nothing.