Amritesh Mukherjee
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This is a story of fractured and reconstructed families, of the circular dance between mothers and sons, of the directionality of directionlessness, of the constellations found in the simplest of lives built from leftovers.
Manu Joseph’s Why The Poor Don’t Kill Us attempts to decode this miracle, to understand how a system so inherently unstable maintains its equilibrium.​
The story has the pace and grace of a well-crafted thriller, ebbing and flowing like a river while picking up the many sediments of Shivaswamy’s life.
Eschewing linguistic embellishments for a straightforward narrative, Sabharwal outlines how “peace in J&K was undermined by five interconnected forces”— troubled Pakistan, Cold War geopolitics, radical Islam, fraught federalism, and separatist politics.
