Insights: Where is Democracy in India? Asking Anthropological Theory to Open Its Doors

Veena Das

A recurring question that haunts theories of democracy is: how has torture become part of routine police procedure in these societies (Rejali, 2007)? It is a question that troubles the novels of J. M. Coetzee, especially Waiting for the Barbarians (1982) and Diary of a Bad Year (2007), and makes for stunning reading in GuantanamoRead more