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