Anya - Varun's cousin
Anya is the daughter of Varun’s aunt Remya. She grew up with her mother and had been bought up as an American girl. She had never been to India and had grown up to be a young woman of complete western ideals.
She is of the same age as Varun and they both go to the same school. They had been very close and basically best friends all through their high school years.