i dont know how to rate this book so i wont
not a huge fan of the author using the phrase "love making" in reference to rape like 3 or 4 fucking times in the book, at first it may have been perhaps the rapists not seeing it as rape (they do, trust me. rapists know what they are doing) but then at the end with that story of a newlywed woman whose train was stopped, Singh described it "the mob made love to her". not putting the guy in a good light
ill leave with one last note <3 war is always hardest on women and children man. 9/10 times all men get is a leg blown off. women and even children get mass raped. i notice this passage in the litcharts: "The story of Sundari is another horrific account, as Muslims rape the newlywed and then cut off her husband’s penis—this literal unmanning being the basest and most humiliating of punishments. " like bro i dont give a fuck about that guy having no dick, she was RAPED MULTIPLE TIMES!!! actually this might be a hot take, but yeah i care more about women and children in war time than the men. even women soldiers arent safe. its sad/funny when men r like "who fights the wars" buddy who starts them