Chapter 1: Dreams Bigger Than Lucknow

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Lucknow, with its calm lanes, heritage buildings, and the aroma of kachoris and jalebis, was where Shikha Sharma had grown up. From a very young age, she had dreamt big—dreamt beyond the comfort of her city, beyond her middle-class home, beyond what everyone expected of her.