Who designed this? the old man asks, kneeling before an anthill.
The boy has heard the question before — at the river, in the kitchen, under monsoon clouds. Dada asks everything and explains nothing. The village says he's strange. The village also comes to him when things break.
Now Dada is dying. Three people sit with him through his last seasons: his grandson, an engineer who came home empty, and Suraj — a boy with steady eyes and nowhere else to be.
