Chapter 1: Introduction

The night was warm and thick with humidity, the sort of night that clung to your skin and dampened your hair even as the first drops of monsoon rain fell. The party was just as sticky and damp - sweating bodies pressed against each other to the throbbing beat of the latest Top 40 hits, the stifling heat magnified by the press of people packed into a small bungalow in Indiranagar.