⌞ foreword ⌝

- जिजीविषा च मुमुक्षु ― The will to live, the hunger for release.

Gauri Nimbalkar lingered somewhere in between.

Time did not take her - it sentenced her. One moment, love cradled in her arms; in the next, she was cast into a world that worships her name but does not know her soul.

Bound to a love that dissolved like sand through her fingers, punished for a sin she never intended, and haunted by the remnants of a life stolen from her grasp- she walks as both a trespasser and a tether of a divine past.

But fate is a script she refuses to follow. If the past has stolen from her, she will steal from destiny itself. Let the gods watch - for Gauri will decide whether she bends or breaks; whether she wills to live or to liberate.