Kottayam

Let me give you an example.

In Kottayam, many years ago, I went to attend a, a three-day conference.

Uh, I was asked to go, not that I want to go, but I was asked to go, so I went and attended the conference.

There was a young man, like Jaron, you know, uh, uh, sitting behind the sound system, managing beautifully the sound system.

He was a Rhodes Scholar who had given up everything to become...

A pickle barrel in Kottayam.

And he was a Marxist.

And he said he was bringing small industry to, you know, a small town.

So many of us have learned to see by reading John Berger's Ways of Seeing.

But you went bra shopping with him.

yes right and for your mother um and and the theme of the bra keeps coming back in your in this book so there's that chapter on called Federico Fellini and the Kottayam Santa there also there is a story about the bra so tell us some of these bra stories and how they landed up in this book

Well, no, the bra thing, I noticed it only, you know, after I'd written the book, that there is certainly a bra thing that runs through.

But let's start by talking about the victims.

Anju Ashok was born in Viacom, which is in the Kottayam district of Kerala in India.

She was born in 1986 or 1987, I think, and I know that her father was called Arakal, and he worked in construction, and her mother was called Krishnamar, and Anju had at least one sister.

Viacom in Kerala is located right in the southwest of India.