Jay Kumar: physician at Lady Bradley Hospital in Shimla, director of the Community Clinic, school chum of Samir Singh, married to Lakshmi Radha: 25-year-old perfumer, Lakshmi’s younger sister, lives in Paris with French architect husband and two daughters; had a baby out of wedlock with Ravi Singh twelve years ago; the baby was adopted by Kanta and Manu Agarwal Samir Singh: 52-year-old architect and managing director of Singh-Sharma Construction, from a high-caste Rajput family related to the Jaipur royal family, husband of Parvati Singh and father of Ravi and Govind
