Posts from the society category.
There is something almost absurd about a life being reduced to ten inches.Twenty-two years of pouring tea.Twenty-two years of remembering who wants extra ginger, who will pay tomorrow, who needs a cup on credit and who comes to the cart simply because there is nowhere else to go.Then someone draws a chalk line on the pavement.Ten inches.And suddenly those ten inches matter more than everything tha...
There is a strange comfort in detective fiction.A crime happens.Someone investigates.Truth emerges.Justice, more often than not, follows.The Menon Investigation reminded me that real life rarely offers that comfort.And perhaps that’s exactly what Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari wanted me to realize.At first, I thought I was picking up another police procedural.An old murder.A senior police officer.A cold...
Like a fine tapestry woven with many stories, characters, joys and horrors, history and society. And the place of women at the center of all of it.
Page 20: Uttar Pradesh, with over 200 million people, recorded just over 10,000 cases of grievous hurt in 2014. In contrast, London, with under 9 million people, recorded over 70,000 cases of assault with injury offences, according to its police statistics for 2014-15. London’s crime rate is 7x of UP. Page 29: During the 2010-2014 survey, the Indian sample demonstrated a lower commitment to democr...