MUDRITHA: A NOVEL

One April thirty-year-old Aniruddhan goes to the police station with a complaint: a woman named Mudritha has disappeared. He has however never met her; only interacted with her on the phone and by email while organizing at her request a tour to Odisha for herself and nine others - all women. After preliminary inquiries though the case is likely to be closed for want of progress. But Vanitha the policewoman in charge continues the investigation secretly. What begins as a search for Mudritha soon reveals more about the other women a diverse group who want to slip away travel and touch the world beyond the mundane confines of their existence.