Chital Mehta, the Middletown author of the recently published novel “Have You Seen Romit?”, came across the news article in 2018: an IT worker and bachelor in Bengaluru, the most populous city in South India, had been reported missing.
Mehta didn’t know the man, and there was nothing particularly striking about the case. It was, from a certain point of view, relatively pedestrian. After all, more than half a million people went missing in the country of 1.4 billion in 2024 alone, according to India’s National Crime Records Bureau.
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Middletown author Chital Mehta’s novel “Have You Seen Romit?” is available to purchase through various national sellers listed on her website, as well as local stores like Huxley & Hiro Booksellers (601 N Market St, Wilmington, DE 19801) and Hockessin BookShelf (7179 Lancaster Pike, Hockessin, DE 19707).
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