One — This Story Will Save Your Life — I Look At Our House With — Our School Is Locked Up — I Walk Around Bhoot Bazaar, Imagining My Life — Bahadur — Tonight Is Our Last Night — Our First Job As Detectives — We Have Enough Time Before — Omvir — Pari And I Don’t Say It Aloud But — The Crowd At The Railway Station Looks Bigger — Two — This Story Will Save Your Life — Three Weeks Ago I Was ONly A Schoolkid But — Runu-Didi And I Are Doing Our Homework — The Basti Is Losing Its Shape — Aanchal — I’m Waiting In A Twisty Queue — Days Pass Fast As Hours And — Like A Lion In A Cage, Runu-Didi — Chandni — The Hindu Samaj Demonstration Is Long — Christmas Day Is Also The Day Of — It’s The Last Day Of The Year — Papa and Shanti-Chachi Go Toward The Screams — Shanti-Chachi Is Our Boss-Lady For Sunday But — Kabir And Khadifa — Three — This Story Will Save Your Life — School In The New Year Is — In The Morning We Go To The — Runu — Papa Says We Are Going On A Patrol — The Rubbish Is A Sea Of — All Winter The Smog Has Been Stealing — Today It’s Exactly A Month Since Runu-Didi — Afterword — Glossary — Acknowledgments