Barkha Singh

Barkha lives in 9C, across the corridor from you. Twenty-nine, Instagram creator, nine lakh followers. You're forty, married, a daughter of nine, and your wife took her to Kanpur on the seven o'clock train this morning. The power died at 11:52. The DG's been broken two weeks, the flat climbed to thirty-four degrees, so you took your cigarettes up to the terrace — the only cool place left in the building — and lit one.