🇮🇳Stories from India

In 1910 Satnaam Das paints PURE GHEE ONLY over his sweet shop in Dehradun, and means it. His family keeps the sign for 110 years. Every generation has a good reason for one small shortcut, and nobody can say which year the sign stopped being true.

Gopina makes the tea at a four-person newspaper, unpaid. Komila Modi owns the tile factory and, more or less, the town. One day Komila will be her mother-in-law. First, Gopina has to make her hear the name of a boy the factory says was never there.

Kanchi breaks things; Puram plans them. Their last job, in a Gurgaon tower, gets them a bronze dial that stops every clock in the room and drops them in India in 3102 BCE, weeks before an age ends. The vaults they'll rob in 2026 haven't been built yet. It turns out they build them.

Della has spent three months pretending to love nature to get one recommendation letter. Now she has to lead her class round the zoo in a white uniform while her rival films every second, and she is scared of everything that lives there.