...Ashis Nandy This story can be read as a case study of a heartless killer sentenced to life imprisonment not for killing Muslims but for killing Gandhi because of his bias for the Muslims. Had Madanlal Pahwa not been part of the conspiracy, he would have gone scot-free. Yet that impunity...

... before we had [enough] data.” So much for the new gods of science: they too devour their hapless children. The second set of essays profiles two men, Madanlal Pahwa and Vinayak Dam- odar Savarkar, who were brought to trial in the assassination conspiracy case of Mahatma Gandhi, the apostle...