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Kas has his own demons to deal with when he returns to the city of dreams, the most problematic of which is being a former Anti Terrorist Squad officer. Meanwhile, Kasturi aka Kassata has been suspended from the front lines of Kashmir, where she had served as a military doctor, following her overzealousness in the line of duty.

The reason for her suspension? She had “guided a dying army officer’s hand to her left breast and let him squeeze”, on the plea that he had never kissed a girl (funhouse mirror shades of Turgenev here). Kas’s own reason for doing what she did is more ignoble; and a turning point. To know more, though, you really must read the book.