**‘Hard-hitting’ Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar‘[A] novel of deep feeling’ Tanuj Solanki**Residents of a small town in Tamil Nadu are stunned by the beheading of a prominent man, whose head is missing from the scene of the crime. Everyone suspects Veni, a geography teacher at the local school, but she appears to have vanished from the face of the earth.As the police gather testimonies from those who closely knew Veni, unsettling truths about this seemingly unknowable woma...