The results were the usual fare. But near the bottom of the fifth page, a single line appeared:

A single sentence appeared beneath the search bar, as if the app itself were answering:

One humid Chennai evening, while waiting for her idli batter to ferment, she typed a random string of words into the search bar: “old forgotten Tamil novels.”

Grahadurai, P. — The Echo of the Sixth Finger (1973).

Padma’s hands trembled. She typed into the app: Who is Grahadurai?