Contents: Introduction. 1. If brains was gas/Abraham Verghese. 2. Diablo Baby/Githa Hariharan. 3. Encounters with the Kodambakkam Hyena/Vivek Narayanan. 4. Unfaithful servants/Manjula Padmanabhan. 5. Madame Kitty/Navtej Sarna. 6. The necklace/Manju Kapur. 7. The scoop/Shankar Vedantam. 8. Alienation/Samit Basu. 9. Ajji's Miracle/Anita Rau Badami. 10. Bollox/Farrukh Dhondy. 11. During the long riots, the fragrance of cuticura/Amitava Kumar. 12. Naina/Shauna Singh Baldwin. 13. The tailor/Rana Dasgupta.