Summary

Gauri sits with her laptop, and considers how technology had changed things. Now information was available at the click of a mouse, and anyone could access it. Her profile is on the website for the college, listing her accomplishments and contact information. She searches and finds Subhash in Rhode Island and even looks for Udayan on a whim but there is no trace of him on line. She finds nothing of Bela either. Manash contacts her, asking how she is and whether she will ever come back. She tells him she’s left Subhash, and invents a life for Bela claiming she is grown and married. Occasionally Gauri still searches for her, but doesn't dare ask Subhash about her.

A former student, Dipankar Biswas contacts her, asking if she would be willing to contribute to a book he is writing about...