Short story Shilavati was bored. She had everything she wanted. A huge LED screen with more than 200 TV channels and a resounding Dolby sound system filled the vacuum of her days with light and sound. There were manservants and maidservants waiting for her orders to fill the emptiness in her ego with a glass of fruit juice or a ride to the shopping mall. Yet she felt bored. Her two children were at school and husband was in the office of the MNC which paid him more money than they really needed. The family used to go for an outing almost every weekend. Yet she felt bored. She switched the channels on the TV. The English news channel was discussing whether death penalty fitted in with contemporary civilisation. Within months of becoming the President, Mr Pranab Mukherjee had sent two persons to the gallows and dismissed the mercy petitions of the killers of Rajiv Gandhi. Why is there so much brouhaha about executing some criminals? Shilavati wondered. Aren’
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