On the Loose: Between the lines
When truth is stranger than legendary fiction
It turns out it wasn’t Leo Tolstoy’s seminal work War and Peace that the Bombay High Court was referring to during the trial of human rights activist Vernon Gonsalves. It was War and Peace in Junglemahal: People, State and Maoists by Biswajit Roy, a collection of essays on political doublespeak and the Maoist problem. The Pune Police claim this to be “highly incriminating evidence” (among others) found at Gonsalves’ residence (he is under arrest for allegedly making provocative speeches and instigating caste violence). “The CD Rajya Daman Virodhi itself suggests it has something against the state. Why did you have this at home?” asked Justice Sarang Kotwal, according to a widely quoted PTI report. Meanwhile, because of a comedy of errors misreporting this story, one of the greatest love affairs in fiction from Russia that everyone has heard of but too few have read, was suddenly trending on Twitter.
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