In a Christian village on the outskirts of Bangalore, faith is negotiated daily-between Sunday Mass and Hindu customs, between what priests teach and what grandmothers know.
Through nine interconnected stories, Between Bells explores what it means to belong when your God is questioned as "Indian enough," when your village becomes a town, and when the freedom you chase collides with the safety others demand.
From a boy who believes he killed his grandmother by praying to a Hindu deity, to a woman rewriting her life from a wheelchair, to a nun learning she too needs help-these stories pulse with the contradictions of faith, family, and identity in an India that has never been singular.
Warm, unflinching, and deeply humane, Between Bells introduces a vital new voice-one that speaks for the unseen negotiations that make a life, and the stubborn hope that survives between belonging and exile.