Post by pimpinainteasy on Oct 16, 2017 2:14:30 GMT
Kal_1993
Soon after the parents discover the body, the maid enters the house. Why does the mother ask the maid to go into the bedroom and look at the body? Wouldn't the parents want to save their daughter the humiliation even after her death? Why let a maid, who is usually a conduit for gossip in Indian neighbourhoods, into the bedroom to look at the desecrated body of their daughter?
Unlike you, I won't say this is evidence of their guilt. I just think it's interesting that the mother would want a stranger to see her daughter with her head slip open and her throat cut, and possibly defiled in other ways that the author left out for the sake of decency.
The whole book reads like one long hastily written article in the Times of India. The Aarushi Talvar (a regular middle class Indian teenage girl) murder case caught the imagination of the Indian nation. Her dentist parents were found guilty of the murder. They are now serving sentences in jail. Many prominent personalities like the British writer Patrick French (who was a patient at the Talvar's clinic) and noted journalists came to the Talvar's defense on TV and the print media. Avirook Sen's investigations revealed that the Indian police and the CBI (Cental Bureau of Investigations) were utterly incompetent and biased against the Talvar's. They had evidence that Aarushi might have been murdered by the friends of the Talvar's servant (who lived with the Talvar's in their flat). Sen argues that the media frenzy that followed the murder might have had an impact on the public perception and police investigation.
This true crime book is almost like a one sided defense of the Talvar's. I wish Avirook had worked harder on explaining the milieu and focused on character development. Instead, we are fed with an avalanche of details about the case, all of which makes the police and the CBI look like complete morons. This was a great opportunity to comment on the callousness and cruelty of the Indian justice system and the huge class divide between urban and small town India. I bet this book scared the shit out of the middle class readers for whom it is written. It certainly scared the hell out of me. But I stopped reading after a while because Sen's prose was unendurable. He seems to have adopted a deliberately simplistic style that would appeal to the masses who are looking for a quick read. I have seen his interviews and he always struck me as a pretty intelligent guy. But I guess he had to sell books. He is no Truman Capote or Norman Mailer. Not even an Ann Rule.
The problem with "Aarushi" is that it is more of a defense of the Talvar's rather than a well written true crime book.
This true crime book is almost like a one sided defense of the Talvar's. I wish Avirook had worked harder on explaining the milieu and focused on character development. Instead, we are fed with an avalanche of details about the case, all of which makes the police and the CBI look like complete morons. This was a great opportunity to comment on the callousness and cruelty of the Indian justice system and the huge class divide between urban and small town India. I bet this book scared the shit out of the middle class readers for whom it is written. It certainly scared the hell out of me. But I stopped reading after a while because Sen's prose was unendurable. He seems to have adopted a deliberately simplistic style that would appeal to the masses who are looking for a quick read. I have seen his interviews and he always struck me as a pretty intelligent guy. But I guess he had to sell books. He is no Truman Capote or Norman Mailer. Not even an Ann Rule.
The problem with "Aarushi" is that it is more of a defense of the Talvar's rather than a well written true crime book.