This book belongs to many, real and fictional, who were instrumental in carving this story and bringing it out.
To my parents... I am indebted to you for making my home and the memories of it the best haven I ever had, and will. Thank you for letting me be.
To Ayush and Aadi... A million, trillion, gazillion thanks to you, for being my oasis and for being the kind of family dreams are made of. And if it weren't for your noise and nonsense, I'd never have felt the need to shut myself away for some peace and solitude and work on my book.
To my brother... For laughing with and at me. Thanks especially for fighting over just the television remote and leaving the books alone.
To my grandmothers... One, for the reading genes, and the other, for the stories which I adapt into everything I write.
To my agent, Lalitha Ravindran, and First Forays Literary Agency... For all the guidance, and for believing in my book long before I began to. I can safely say, without you, this book would have been an unfinished document on my laptop.
To my publisher, Garuda, and their wonderful editing team... For picking up this book, for understanding, appreciating, and molding the book into something better than what I could ever have hoped for.
To the authors and books I have read and loved... Thank you for being a part of me, for being more real to me at times than flesh and blood. There might be influences-intentional and unintentional of them in quotes, in titles, and in the essence of everything I write.
To each and one of my friends, family, acquaintances, passing acquaintances, random strangers, and enemies, who have mentioned at least once that I should try my hand at writing a book... Thank you. Maybe you never meant it. Maybe you have forgotten it. Lucky for me, I didn't. But that's the thing about kindness. It stays on long after the words are spoken and the people are gone from your lives.
And finally to the reader... You picked up this book, out of all the thousand wonderful ones out there, whether under threat or due to my entreaties, or from pity or plain out of boredom. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
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