As the foundations for a temple on the site of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya are being laid, voices rise from the ground in a small town in central Kerala. She is a district court judge, and he is a petitioner in a seemingly insignificant property dispute. However, the first hearing throws the judge's life into disarray. Pink Edward rose scent, snake iridescent scales, the sceptre?and science?of vanishing twins Girls with no feet on the ground. Ancestors who are irascible and comically powerful. The hard truths about the intertwined histories of Hindus and Muslims in India, as well as the chasms between men and women, are hidden in this illusory landscape.