The Science of HER (Paperback)

Paperback. Pratyush Kumar runs at steady state. Third year, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay: a heat exchanger problem, a ceiling fan whose frequency he finds soothing, and the certainty that love is something other people experience.Then, at a campus event by Powai Lake, he sees a Physics student arguing about eigenvalues - and catches himself counting a stranger's blinks. Nandita draws fractals in the sand at Juhu Beach and says some things exist for a while, you just make them while you can. She turns up at his lab with dosa. He carries a family ring in his desk drawer for three weeks, waiting for her birthday. That night his call goes to voicemail. Two weeks later comes a sentence - please don't call me anymore - and a reason with a family's weight behind it. Years later, at a conference in Zuerich, a session chair reads a name into a microphone.Dry, exact and quietly devastating, The Science of HER is a first love written up like an experiment, by the one person who could never be objective about it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…