The protagonist, Pallavi Menke, who's a Dalit academic, has to fight with her upper-caste husband and in-laws to include Buddhist wedding rituals in the celebrations. Her in-laws are proud of her ...
Not even one of the hundreds of guests who attended the wedding celebration - also of a young Dalit man - will go on record to describe what happened to Jitendra on 26 April. Afraid of a backlash ...