The idyllic, creative environment that 65-year-old artist Shireen Mody (pictured, photographed by Prabuddha Dasgupta, shireenmody.com) had created in Arpora, North Goa, was shattered on October 6 this year when her gardener allegedly bludgeoned her to death with an iron pipe. According to the police, the alleged assailant Prafulla Jena also succumbed to injuries caused by a fall while trying to flee the scene of the crime, noted the Mumbai Mirror (MM) of October 7. Mody was "struck several times” by Jena, stated the news report, quoting an unnamed officer from the Anjuna police station. The Times of India (ToI) noted......