Kavita Lal, 33, is just back from another long, tiring day at court. A hint of a smile plays on her lips today—it’s been months since that shadow lifted from her face, months since that horrible day when she felt she had been stripped in public. Nothing perhaps will put her back together like she was, before she broke to pieces. Nothing will entirely heal the lesions, except maybe time. But a kind of justice is in sight. After a long-drawn police investigation, her husband, on the run for months, is finally in custody. The case proceedings have started at the Surajpur District and Sessions Court. Today Kavita can do without her ‘happy pills’, as she calls her anti-depressant medicines, which she has been on to ever since her ordeal started. Instead, she plans to couch down with the re-runs of her favourite Hindi serial, Ek Vivaah Aisa Bhi.
Surajpur, if you were wondering, is a small town in Chhattisgarh. Which is a good enough indication of how deep the digital life has seeped into India. And how that essential...
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