Summary

In Part 4: Chapter 1, the year is 1918 and World War I has started, with many thousands of Indians fighting and dying for England. Along with this, influenza is spreading through Delhi and the death count is so high that the most prosperous people at the moment are grave diggers. Many of the grave diggers would steal from the dead once families have left the newly created cemeteries. They do not are about the grieving families, only about the money that can be made. Almost everyone in the burial business cheats families out of money for their own purposes. Although the people of Delhi are downtrodden, they still write songs and poetry to unsuccessfully try to lift their spirits.

Bilqeece's improvement makes a drastic turn for the worse as she hears of people dying all around her in Part 4: Chapter 2. She is now bedridden...