ANTYODAYA
Chapter 10

The Fire

He did not stand on anything. He never needed to.

Veer Pratap had not created the feeling in Naugarh — he had smelled it from a hundred kilometres off, the way fire smells oxygen, and had come to breathe it enormous. The district was thick with the rawest, most usable emotion there is: a people wronged for generations who had just, for seven shining weeks,…