There’s a certain kind of silence that doesn’t feel empty… it feels watchful. The kind you don’t notice at first. The kind that slowly begins to notice you. That’s the space I found myself in while reading The Tubewell House by Abhishek Chaudhary. At one level, it’s the story of Ashank Sinha—a man who has stepped away from the velocity of Mumbai’s financial world into the deceptive stillness of a village called Lawrenceganj. But very quickly, you realize this isn’t about