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The Ministry rates Samar Varma and Kavya Nair 31% compatible. The highest-variance factor is trust in the Pranaali. Since the Programme began, no score below 40% has ever been approved.

Behind the grain market there is no scoreboard, no sensor and no licence. Samar Varma, eleven years a Handler, is handed a bat and told he does not have to play it correctly.

Manzoor is seventy and walks a route nobody in the lane knows is a route: Fatima’s stall, the Agarwals’ shutter, a widow upstairs who needs nothing. Twenty-nine doors, every morning, between two glasses of tea.

For fifteen years Aisha has told strangers how a grain convoy saved her mother. Her mother was twenty-three that night, not nineteen. She does not remember any headlights. She remembers diesel.