Two separate bombings claim the lives of much of the literary talent in India. All but one writer survived, named Ismail Baig, who happened to be Muslim and not Hindi. His religion cast him under suspicion, as the terrorists who bombed the conventions were also Muslim. But eventually people began to revere him as a writer, as he was the only one left. The publishing houses of India began a campaign for people to begin buying and reading the books of the deceased authors in order to keep literary life and cashflow alive in the country. However, the writers who were left behind and were decidedly lesser because of their not being at the events that killed the others, decided indignantly that they should not be looked over in the country's literary effort. They decided to put together their own anthology of stories. In order to have the anthology be successful though, they would need a significant author to write the introduction. So one writer decides to go visit Baig in the hospital to ask him to be the one. The young author ends up walking in on Baig's schizophrenic cousin attempting to strangle him. The writer doesn't realize- he thinks its a doctor attending to him. But when the cousin runs out and there is screaming, the young writer realizes that there is something wrong and chases after the man. When the police see the young writer running, they arrest him, believing that he was the strangler fleeing the scene. After being interrogated at the police station, he is saved by Baig himself who arrives with his wife to absolve him of guilt. Baig and his wife are apologetic for the sitatuation and invite him home for dinner, whre he requests Baig's introduction. Baig agrees, and the young writer and his friends are able to successfully pull off their anthology. The anthology however, was not necessarrily in the name of honoring the dead writers or keeping literature alive, it was more to exploit the opportunity the dearth of writers in India created. Much of the tragedy was forgotten.