In Hot Blood. The Nanavati Case That Shook India by Bachi Karkaria. Published in 2017 by Juggernaut Books, KS House, 118 Shahpur Jat, New Delhi 110049. Pp: 302. Price: Rs 699.
Society often suspends its moral compass when an assailant is either handsome or avenging dishonor to his family or from the armed forces or charismatic. Commander Kawas Nanavati was all of these, and a Parsi, in "an era which was less questioning of entitlement,” as Bachi Karkaria so pithily puts it in her book, In Hot Blood. Throw in a pretty English wife, political connections at the highest level, a......