In a violent land ( Stories & essays) of the olio collection from Aleph books an imprint of Rupa publishers is a thoughtful lot of real life events and few fictions that depict the violence that occurs in our land , India , in the name of all kinds of ways people differentiate each other from gender , caste to religion they donot step back from harming others by killing them , massacring a full community through riots , forging , raping women and children.
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oosebumps creating account of the situations during partition of India and Pakistan , the extreme weather , how a tribal girl from Subalpur got gangraped by 13 for loving a man from another community and many such cases like mumbai riots where people didnot think twice before killing their own species for money , religious fanaticism and bigotry.Hardcover bright coloured book with 12 such write ups this is a one of kind collection to have.