 In contrast to this scenario is Animika herself, a budding intellectual who devours books—among other authors, she has read Dostoevsky, Sartre, Kundera and Bradbury and reads Nabokov's "Lolita" during her trip to Kasauli—and at school excels at maths and physics.At the same time her moral relativism is of a youthful kind, where every new experience she has is likely to trigger a change in her outlook on the human condition.Her lesbianism is a foil for traditional Indian thought and values.