Autobiography of A Mad Nation

If I had to choose between letting down A friend or my country, god, give Me the strength to betray my nation. ‘ I was born in a mentally retarded country.' Thus begins this provocative, stylish, and racy literary rant against India by a twenty-four-year-old awaiting capital punishment; hoisting so huge a historic and political canvas to paint upon— opening at the Emergency that almost murdered Democracy and culminating in the Godhra riots, which almost destroyed secularism— a canvas so grand, i