A mirror for us

Themes of generational, class conflict are common in A State of Freedom as in its predecessor

Last week, security guards and residents of Mahagun Moderne, a high-rise residential complex in Noida, fought pitched battles with slum dwellers who live in the neighbourhood. The troubles, yet again, revealing the vulnerable social fabric of our country, started when a household help in one of the flats went missing, and her husband, a construction worker, suspected that she had been detained inside the gated complex. When police did not help, he and his neighbours went on a rampage, which soon turned into a riot, with communal colours. The latest development in this sorry narrative of want clashing with entitlement