Arundhati Roy, the writer who has never minced her words. It also had a glittering cast of characters from the liberal left – people I have always and will always admire and hold up as my heroes. The documentary was sold in advance to an expected subversive audience like myself as a pathbreaking investigation that would bring to light new information and show us something we had not seen before. I felt as if I was looking at that bride in old lace and white net, out of sync with time. The BBC’s two-part documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi had the same effect on me. A bride jilted at the altar is found for the rest of her years to be stuck in time, wearing her wedding dress forever since then, trapped in a freeze-frame when her world came crashing down. There’s a freeze frame from an old English classic I’d like to bring up before you – it’s that of Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations.
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