The unbearable agony of being Aruna Shanbaug

June 04, 2012 18:25

The birthday of a woman doomed to a very painful -- and very slow -- death was celebrated last Friday. Outside the locked door of the room in which she is incarcerated, her care-givers posed for happy-happy photos, giving cheerful quotes about their daily devotion to her brittle bones, and how their reward is her grateful smile.

Pinky Virani's piece (the author of Aruna's Story) on Firstpost.com.

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