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STORIES “How do you know Nikhil?” she asked. Okay, so this was interview time, she thought. “We are classmates,” she replied. “What has he told you about us?” she asked. “Everything. That his dad is in Merchant navy, that you run a chain of parlours, that Akhil, his twin brother, is doing BA. That’s it.” “When did you meet Akhil?” Niharika wondered what could be the point of this interrogation. Where was this leading to? “I met him twice. First at the bus stop across our college and then at Relish,” she sai