The rest of the lecture passed in a dreamy haze for most of the students. Zahi was fast asleep, her breathing deep and regular.
Vivek and Rahul were quiet too, each busy with his own private thoughts. The crowd around them had thinned to some extent. Evidently a number of people had decided that the novelty had worn off and this was not as much fun as they had supposed it to be. Partly, this was because Dr Bhaskar, while both earnest and sincere, was without any discernible sense of humour. He had not cracked a single joke since the beginning of his lecture. But it was not particularly to their credit that the students had been quiet and well-behaved all this time. It was simply that they were asleep.
Five am. Zahi stumbled, gluey-eyed, out of the lecture hall. It was still dark.
“Wow!
