Part 18 Summary

The story line returns to Lata who is attending a poetry reading by Amit for the Literary Society. Kabir is there as well. At the meeting, Pran is subtly urged to withdraw his candidacy for head reader at the university. It turns out that Kabir had invited Amit to the Society and, what is more, it had been Haresh Khanna who had introduced them. Lata and Kabir have an emotional confrontation about Haresh. There is a large dinner at Pran's home with an assortment of characters, some meeting for the first time. Pran is most anxious about learning if he passed the committee for his promotion. Lata and Amit seem to hit it off over Amit's poetry reading. Impulsively, Amit proposes to Lata. Mrs. Rupa is less sharp with Amit than he had expected since she had been having second thoughts about Haresh...