India, March 14 -- An amusing thread running through most of the stories in this collection is of someone - it could be providence or another individual - fooling someone else, precipitating a realisation or a change in them or their circumstances. There is a wife who 'fixes' her husband, a plagiarising writer who brings his editor down a notch, a couple who think not eating will help them save money only to realise that money can't be made that way. Then, there's a lawyer who brings about justice while also finishing off a rival's career for good, a misogynist husband who realises his wife is a better writer than he is, a corrupt cop who is shown the error of his ways by a junior, an uncle who tries to implicate his nephew in a murder, a...