Shashi Warrier: 2 books

A powerful, harrowing book exploring a great moral question: when does one who kills become a murderer? In the heat and the dust of the Indian south, the last hangman of Travancore commits his life to paper. In seven notebooks he remembers the people he has killed, calmly recalling the final...

‘Among the thousands of orphaned children adopted after'47 there are a few—less than twenty—who were planted here by Jinnah's men . . .’ At thirty-eight, feeling ancient and used up, Colonel Rajan Menon—Raja—knows his best years as a commando are behind him. But he is soon tested as never...