Saraswati'A writer we will be talking about for years to come' Neel Mukherjee 'A new talent of the kind that comes along rarely' Observer Centuries ago, they say that the holy river Saraswati flowed through what is now Punjab, alongside the Indus River and its five tributaries. Some dismiss this as myth or allegory, but when Satnam arrives in Punjab for his grandmother's funeral, he finds water in the dried up well behind her house. The discovery sets in