Wormwood and Gall
It's easy to feel outrage over this brutal crime. What we must focus on is real change, real justice and real compassion, instead of the empty satisfactions of orgiastic cruelty.
It's depressingly familiar. She sounds like she was a lovely person-a scooter-riding veterinarian, just what I wanted to be when I was a little girl. Now she is dead; raped and killed, her burnt body left under a culvert off National Highway 44.
The Union defence minister clutches his chest on national TV. Lots of moustachioed experts shout over each other in the Lok Sabha. Jaya Bachchan says, "I
