: This ‘crime thriller’ is in fact an investigation of the pressure on women to adhere to social norms #IndiaNEWS There’s an old Godrej almirah rusting in that one room in an Indian household.

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This ‘crime thriller’ is in fact an investigation of the pressure on women to adhere to social norms #IndiaNEWS
There’s an old Godrej almirah rusting in that one room in an Indian household. In the same room of rotting immateriality that our parents, and the parents before them, refuse to let go, sits a question. It’s a jump scare. You’re all too familiar with it. If not, what will people say? Log kya kahenge? Madhumita Bhattacharyya’s Dirty Women counters the question with a more pertinent one: How does it matter?Although primarily a crime-thriller, the novel straddles genres. And its legs don’t quake in the process. “What happens when we lose a child?�? asks Aahana, a female journalist (and I specify a gender for a reason Bhattacharyya untangles in this story) in the “true crime book-within-the-book�?. Bhattacharyya unfurls the story across two timelines – through 2002, and in an unspecified future where “the most unlikely of sourcep�����XZ[�H�ܚ]HX��]���[�H����YKXZ[�HYZ]�]8�'H��x��X�[H[���[��XX�H�]8�'H�ݙx���&K8�'Y[H[�ܙYY[��وH]��Y�YKݙK�^[ۙ^K���ژ�����Y]UH�Y�Y�[�K�H�݋^YX�[�ڛ��][ܙH[ܝ[�K�x�&�H]Y��وH�[��H[���[�ً��K��8�'���]���ܝۈ��Y[��܈ݙ���ˈۈH�Y�[���HYYXH��YHژ�ˋ���XY[ܙH

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