A review by maa_yaa1
The Punished: Stories of Death-Row Prisoners in India by Jahnavi Misra

dark emotional hopeful informative tense fast-paced

4.5

Foreword talks about people who we want to kill, you don’t come across this until you reach the end and read about the author. I promptly skipped reading that and only read it at the end. I think it would have had a different effect on me had I read them earlier. The stories make us look into the lives of convicts who may or may not have done the crimes but are suffering nonetheless. Waiting for death, as years go by is probably the harshest part about the book. It’s a known fact but still skips the mind of an ordinary person. The stories are gripping and don’t go on for too long, giving you just enough to think. They are also presented in varied ways so the reader doesn’t get bored.