BLOOD ON MY HANDS

CONFESSIONS OF STAGED ENCOUNTERS

01 October, 2015

Kishalay Bhattacharjee

This is an anonymous confession by an army officer, to the investigative journalist Kishalay Bhattacharjee, about “encounters” staged by the army in the north-east. Bhattacharjee supplements this reporting with an essay, and a postscript in which bureaucrats and diplomats speak on the record about a secret policy of extra-judicial killings, and how it threatens India’s democracy.

Harpercollins India, 216 pages, Rs 250