About the Book: Legal Fictionb>
Legal fiction: A rule assuming as true something that is clearly false. Often
used to get around the provisions of constitutions and legal codes.
A late-night phone call from his ex-girlfriend Anasuya forces writer Arjun Kumar
to leave his wife and home in Delhi and travel to the mofussil town of Noma on
the UP-Bihar border. The reason-Anasuyas husband, Rafique Neel, a college
professor and theatre director, has mysteriously disappeared. Soon after he
arrives, Arjun realizes that things are not as they seem: the police are
refusing to register a missing-persons case, Rafiques student Janaki has also
disappeared, and the locals are