Kafkaland

Prejudice, Law and Counterterrorism in India

01 December, 2014

Manisha Sethi

Three Essays Collective

216 pages, Rs.350

Kafkaland exposes the grisly underbelly of counterterrorism, where prejudice and lawlessness are commonplace. The author examines a slew of prominent terror cases from across the country to show how the hallmark of terror investigations is not simply a casual subversion of norms, but prejudice and violence inflicted in the knowledge of absolute impunity. In “Kafkaland,” the erosion of constitutional guarantees is advertised as a boost to internal security, and corporate greed masquerades as national interest.