It could be my age or this age. Forget books, I don't even sit watching a movie hours together. Nothing is fascinating enough, riveting enough. Blame it on 'seen it all, heard it all' syndrome, blame it on short attention span due to one line whatsapp jokes. So I surprised myself by completing Roy's book, sitting till post noon. War stories are really disturbing. It makes one question the existence of humanity in this world. And in worst cases, it makes us wonder are we in any way better than wild animals - at least they kill their prey - for their food. But again those stories belonged to another world, another time. World war, afghanistan etc. But this book - Arundhati Roy's Ministry of utmost happiness - is from our country, our people, this present time. And that realization is very very scary. As scary as the news you read some times. Amrik Singh is an army officer who has blood of many kashmiris on his hands - both militants and civilians. For him...