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First Meeting

Twelve years ago, when Kanika moved back to Rajasthan—her homeland—she joined Royals High School as a 7th-grade transfer student.

Her first day seemed ordinary enough. The school looked decent, and the classroom dynamics weren’t much different from her old school in Uttar Pradesh. Girls and boys were arranged in two neat columns—as if gender segregation was part of the syllabus.

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