It's the unseemly side of the country, blighted by cultural conservatism, poverty, sectarian violence, caste hierarchies and misogyny. This isn't the globalized India of news or the India of IT excellence and an ambitious space mission.
It's a searing meditation on the meaning of dignity in a dehumanizing world. Thrity Umrigar's important new novel Honor isn't an easy read.įrom depictions of casual misogyny to distressing scenes of public shaming, mistreatment and torture, the novel shows the terrifying social forces that strip vulnerable people of dignity and render them animal-like.
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