by Akhil P. Dharmajan: A contemporary publishing phenomenon and social media sensation that follows an aspiring filmmaker's journey of love and dreams in Chennai. Oru Sankeerthanam Pole

“Dear Ammachi, I am not your blood, but I am your memory. Twenty years ago, you found me as a baby floating in a basket among the lotus stems. You named me Devi. You raised me on karimeen curry and moonlight. But when the village found out I was ‘upper caste’ by birth, you sent me away to a convent in Kannur, pretending I was an orphan. You never told me why you cried that day. But I know now. You loved me more than any mother could. And I have loved a man they won’t accept. So I am running away—not from him, but from their rules. I am sending you this letter from the railway station. If you want me back, send a sign.”

A thriller-romance. A couple plans to elope at midnight, but a murder in the neighborhood pulls them into a moral dilemma.