TY - BOOK AU - Balasubramanian,Priya TI - The alchemy of secrets SN - 9789389152135 (paperback) U1 - 540.112 BAL 23 PY - 2020/// CY - New Delhi PB - Westland Books Pvt Ltd KW - Alchemy KW - History KW - SCIENCE KW - General KW - Chemistry N2 - About the Book: The Alchemy of Secrets Miras beloved grandmother is on her deathbed in Bangalore, a city she fled from seven years ago. She has no choice but to return. But it also means having to face what she has tried to forget all these years. Memories of a lazy summer come flooding back, when she and her best friend Anisa wandered the tree-lined streets in Bangalore. All was not as idyllic as it seemed to them, however: a mosque had recently come down in another part of the country, and its after-effects rippled all around them. As unscrupulous small-time politicians used the rise in religious ER -