Abir is a teenager in the second year of her PUC (12th grade) in a college in Bengaluru. She is a hard-working, studious girl who is focused on her ambitions which do not include an early marriage as planned by her Abbu and Ammi. She is an angry young woman, and in her attempts to assert herself and seek justice for herself and her mother, she misjudges her friends. A tech competition in college that she is desperate to win means she needs to work in a group and with male classmates and friends, something her family is quite against. To make matters worse, one of her workmates is a boy she is attracted to, and another is one that her family wants her to marry. The Henna Start-Up is a story about how Abir tries to achieve her dreams by employing any means necessary, and how she flicks away the chip on her shoulder about the world being against her as she learns to differentiate her friends from her foes.
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