SEEING RED
Shortly after Maoists ambushed a CRPF convoy on April 6, 2010, killing 76 of its personnel, Smriti Zubin Irani was invited to discuss the violence on a 9 o’clock television news programme. Irani remembers the day well: “One of the panelists said, ‘When you get into the armed or paramilitary forces and wear its uniform, you know you have written a prescription for your own death.’ What if a family member of an officer was watching that debate? I was infuriated, and for a decade, that rage only kept building.”
Anger—never an easy emotion to process—sometimes needs to be channelised,
