The vote was on a Thursday.
Not the December vote — that had been postponed by the injunction's uncertainty. The actual vote: the emergency board session called once the injunction had collapsed, once the legal motion had been filed and the 2019 judgment had done what she'd said it would do to the succession argument, once Pandey had — through Anand, in a careful Tuesday conversation over tea — reconsidered his position and formally withdrawn his signature from the Kapoor filing.
The Raisinghani Group boardroom had the specific quality of rooms where significant things happened regularly: high windows, the long table with its twelve chairs, the ambient hum of something at stake.
Maya sat at the table for the first time.
Not beside Atharva — not as an accessory, not as a demonstration.
