Beyond the voyeurism of the Indrani Mukerjea TV drama, another question arises: How does love die between mother and daughter? How does rage, jealousy and greed take over? TV has already declared Indrani Mukherjea as a child-slaying, diabolical desi Medea before even a court judgment. Whether Indrani killed Sheena or not, another death is even more worrying. And that is the impending death of the Indian family.
Why exactly should we gasp over every new prime-time horror in the Indrani case? After all, the statistics on dowry deaths, abandonment of parents, rape of minors and khap panchayat killings are piling up daily. In our ostensibly family-centred culture, murder or attempts to murder within families are, shockingly, hardly uncommon. Buffetted by gale Read More
