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08aI WAS startled as I felt something at my back. I was preparing for the professional exam of anatomy late at night with my table lamp on. I shared the room with two other senior girls. As I turned around, I saw Rita with hair spread all around her face. She had a strange look on her face. Her hand was travelling down my spine. She put her face on my shoulder and tried to touch my face with her cheek. I swirled around and forced her to move away from me and ran out of the room. When I came back later, I found both the girls fast asleep in their own beds. I could neither sleep nor concentrate on my studies. I stayed awake with my book just in front of me. I felt very tired from lack of sleep, frustrated at not being able to finish my work. I woke up with the sound of the girls walking around, slamming the door. My limbs refused to help; the previous night’s experience had left a bad taste in my mouth. Our room had three single beds, two close to one another and the other, mine, lay o...
Love in a time of bigotry
Love in a time of bigotry Jackie Kabir dwells on the heart and its death Riot Shashi Tharoor Daily Star Books Riot Shashi Tharoor Daily Star Books SHASHI Tharoor's Riot begins with the death of a young American social worker who just “happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.” The writer takes up some excerpts from newspapers at the beginning of the novel and goes on to explain the event from different people's perspectives. It is a very interesting read because there are many different voices describing the event, in the form of letters, statements, passages from notebooks, scrapbooks. The author very aptly narrates the incident of Priscilla Hart's murder which takes place in humdrum of the communal riots in the fictitious city of Zalilgarh. The history of communal riots in the subcontinent dates back to the British period. Shashi Tharoor also portrays a congenial world where Hindus and Muslims worshipped the same saint or warrior before the partition of the ...