On a breezy Sunday morning in Kolkata, the Mukherjee family—Arindam, his wife Rituparna, and their ten-year-old daughter Anushka—stepped out to see what they hoped would become their new beginning.

Rohit and Nivedita had just begun their married life in Kolkata. He worked in an IT company in Sector V, while she taught bright-eyed children at a kindergarten nearby.

On a Sunday afternoon, the Mukherjee family — Arindam, his wife Sreemoyee, and their two children, Ankit and Tiyasha .