Anita stood unaccompanied, with a plastic bag containing home-cooked food, on the lawn outside the district jail in Noida’s Kasna village. A widowed single mother, Anita had come there looking for her missing 18-year-old son. Six days prior,...
IT MAY HAVE PASSED as another unexamined, unexplained custodial death, or been attributed to a heart attack, had it not been for the bloodsoaked bed in the Amritsar mortuary where Jaswinder Singh’s body lay. His mother had arrived early to see...
ON MOST MORNINGS SINCE 1985, Madan Lal has walked one lane in Delhi’s Jhandewalan area, to get to his fruit shop, which faces the Mandir Dargah Shri Baba Sir Ratan Nath Ji, known locally as Har Shri Nath Mandir Dargah. The shrine is dedicated to...
Good-looking young man in your Crimean shirt with your willow shield up, as if to face spears, you’re inside their men’s Law, one church they do obey; they’ll remember you were here. “The Aboriginal Cricketer,” Les Murray FOR THE FIRST TIME...
