Then she lifted her hand in a pataka mudra —the gesture of a royal decree. And she began.
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She sat in the corner of the third row, weaving a strand of loose thread from her Kanchipuram silk saree’s border. The saree was a deep, impossible shade of peacock blue— mayil neelam —with a thick korvai border of gold that caught the tube lights and threw them back as tiny, insolent sunbeams. It was a genuine Kanchipuram, heavy enough to double as a bulletproof vest, passed down from her grandmother. On anyone else, it would have looked like a regal heirloom. On Radhika, it looked like a weapon. Then she lifted her hand in a pataka