Passage North

A telephone call brings Krishan news of Rani's death—a former caregiver found at the bottom of a well in Sri Lanka's north with a broken neck—stirring memories of Anjum, an activist he loved years before in Delhi. As he travels by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province for the funeral, Krishan enters a landscape shaped by violence and loss. This novel explores time, consciousness, and the invisible bonds between people, serving as both a memorial to the missing and dead and a meditation on how we are marked by our connections to others.