CHAPTER ONEThe ComplaintThe card said AISHWARYA MADHAVAN COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE, BCA — SECOND YEAR, and under the faded hologram, a photograph of a girl who was smiling the specific, slightly startled way people smiled in ID photos, as if the camera had caught them mid-sentence.“Her name is Aranya,” the mother said, though the card already said so. She said it like a woman testing whether a name still worked if you used it out loud enough times, the way you’d test a light switch in a room you weren’t sure still had power. “She calls — every day,