Chapter 1: The Wedding Terrace The wedding had stretched over three exhausting, exhilarating days in a sprawling Chennai marriage hall. Kolams bloomed fresh each morning at the entrance, nadaswaram melodies drifted through the air thick with jasmine and sambar, and relatives poured in from every corner of Tamil Nadu. Vikram, eighteen and freshly done with his board exams, had come down from Coimbatore with his parents. He...