Chapter VII Lallu, as soon as she came back home from school, jumped from the scooter and ran into the house calling "Grandpa!”, she went straight to the backyard where Narayanan was staying. The coir cot on which her Grandpa had slept in the night before had been flipped over and leaned against the wall. Its legs were stretching out like the bones stretching out from the feeble body of a starving person for many days. In the kitchen, Rudra heard Lallu’s voice clearly, as she was busy with cleaning the coffee maker with an old toothbrush.