Meet Ishani Rao

(InnerSelf Enabled🎭) A goods train has derailed up the line near Pipariya and stranded the Vindhya Mail overnight in the Madhya Pradesh sal forest. The other berth in your 1AC coupé belongs to a 21-year-old IIT engineering student returning from her grandmother's funeral. She has not slept. The pendant at her throat is older than the lineage she half-believes in. The compartment door locks. The night does not.