Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri: As a novelist, it is exciting and rewarding to see your story move from the page to the screen

The novel has received multiple literary honors, including the Kalinga Literary Award (2024), the Delhi Literature Festival Fiction Prize (2024), the Pandit Hari Dutt Sharma Award (2025), the REC-VoW Award for Fiction (2025), and the Special Jury Award (2025) at the FICCI Publishing Awards for Book of the Year – Fiction