Siberian crane left India in 2002.

I was born in 2010.

We never met.

My Class 11 NCERT had half a page about them. It ended with "they no longer migrate to India". Full stop. Like that was the end of the story.

It wasn't.

I started asking why in the margins. The questions became Noor.

This is not a book about a bird. This is about the space between "they no longer" and "why". It's about a 15-year-old from Gangpur, Mirzapur who decided that a textbook's full stop was just her comma.

For everyone who has been told to stop asking. 
For everyone who still looks up when they hear wings.

I never saw one. So I wrote one.

This is my first book. 
I am only just