The murders that gripped the nation Seven years ago a teenage girl, Aarushi Talwar, was found murdered in her bedroom in Noida, a middle-class suburb of Delhi. The body of the prime suspect—the family servant, Hemraj—was discovered a day later. Who had committed the double murders, and why? Within weeks, Aarushi’s parents, the Talwars, were accused; four years later, they went on trial and were convicted. But did they do it? Avirook Sen attended the trial, accessed important documents and interviewed all the players—from Aarushi’s friends to Hemraj’s old boss, from the investigators to the forensic scientists—to write a meticulous and chilling book that reads like a thriller but also tells a story that is horrifyingly true. Aarushi is the definitive account of a sensational crime, and the investigation and trial that followed.

This is the story of a girl (Aarushi) facing many emotional encounters and struggling to overcome the lasting repercussions and the stifling role of 'low self-esteem'. She longs to escape a life defined by her past. This book would take you through all the incidents she had to face and the destiny that brought Aarushi and Ravin together and the sequence of events that changed her views about life. This book would probably impart an inspiration to all girls who don't possess self-faith and also reminds us of our human capacity for resilience, epiphany, and redemption.

The world is run through hope. Everyday, we go to sleep in hope that we will wake up in the morning. We buy a ticket to the lottery in the hope of winning something. This book is little about that and a little beyond it. It is about hope of willingness to live and to do something more in life. A ray of hope that decided not to fade away even when it was taken away by force. I dedicate this book to my little girl, Aarushi, who is rightly named. It revolves around her life, her soul and her journey. It's a story about a little girl who had a brave warrior inside her, which unleashed every time when life went hard on her. I want her to become a source of inspiration to anyone out there, who thinks they cannot do certain things because life is too tough. Our lives completely changed since the day she was born. It is more than just her academic achievements and the curriculars. I want her to be remembered as the charming, bubbly and smart girl as she was. This is my way of giving a tribute and honoring my daughter, Aarushi.

Aarushi By Sai Abhinay Chepuri