Dreamt Lives Anirudh Deshpande This is a work of fiction. For Anupama Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it. Gabriel Garcia Marquez You cannot write more truly about yourself than you are. - Ludwig Wittgenstein ***** A word of Thanks I thank my elder sister Anjali Deshpande who read an earlier draft of this once ‘secret’ novelas an accomplished novelist and story teller. This novel owes a lot to her remarks. If I have been unable to incorporate some of her comments on the draft, the fault