When Sitaram Rana, Mahendra's son, hands over the school to the newly founded Kailash Educational and Environmental Trust, Ishan's spirituality is stirred. He begins to write a gospel. Ishan's gospel has its roots in Shillong where he was born of hybrid parentage: a Keralite Hindu father and a Khasi Catholic mother, the latter of whom had a Bangladeshi Muslim father. Shankara Panicker, Ishan's father, was one of the victims of Indira Gandhi's Emergency. So Father Joseph Kunnel became the boy's guardian. The priest and the boy had little in common. Eventually Ishan left Shillong along with his wife, Jenny, and got a job at Kailash whose Vice Principal questions how Ishan would make the school a choice of millions.