1. Chapter 1 - Summer Nights in Delhi & Chapter 2 - In the Mirror 

2. Chapter 3 - Growing Up in Delhi , Chapter 4 - Thiruvella & Chapter 5 - Honavar 

3. Chapter 6 - Trains & Chapter 7 - Hauntings on the Ridge and Dreaming Spires 

4. Chapter 8 - The Tent School and First Love & Chapter 9 - Partitions 

5. Chapter 10 - Love and Separation 

6. Chapter 11 - Life Goes On & Chapter 12 - Mussoorie 

7. Chapter 13 - College Days & Chapter 14 - Drama and Dissent 

8. Chapter 15 - Adrift & Chapter 16 - Breaking Out 

9. Chapter 17 - The femme fatale at a Delhi School & Chapter 18 - Karachi

10. Chapter 19 - Queen Victoria and the Syrian Christians & Chapter 20 - The Suez Canal and the Little Mermaid 

11. Chapter 21 - Frozen in Time  

12. Chapter 22 - The Second Sex: Smoke and Dust 

13. Chapter 23 - A Grim Fairy Tale in a Diminishing Landscape 

14. Chapter 24 - The Sybil in the Bottle & Chapter 25 - The Door Never Opened  / Into the Rose Garden 

15. Chapter 26 - Mystery and Fright 

16. Chapter 27 - In Open Sunshine, Or We Are Unblest 

​17. Chapter 28 - The Water is Wild 

18. Chapter 29 - The Ballad of the Black Sorrow & Chapter 30 - The Lighthouse on the Rocks