This girl... is going to make it to the top with her second novel, I said to myself (as I finished Rani Dharker s first novel) ... In her, we have a clever, erudite woman who can communicate Indian thought and tradition to the Western world as few living writers of India today. Khushwant Singh. Here s Anurima, the second novel Khushwant Singh spoke about. It takes us to Sonapur, once a princely state, now a bustling city, where the lives of three people, very unlike each other, collide in unusual circumstances.