A school register, a ten-rupee note, a question asked every Sunday for twenty-four years. Manu Vishranti writes about the small objects a family uses to carry what it cannot say aloud. He works in English and in Hindi, building each version from the ground up rather than translating, on the understanding that a language is a way of noticing and not a set of equivalents. He also writes on meditation. The Five Wounds, five novels and one companion volume, is his first published work of fiction.