 "Rohit Shekhar’s legal fight established the right of a child — at any age — to know his paternity")
Sometimes in a journalist’s life come stories that haunt them for a long time. The life of Rohit Shekhar Tiwari, who died this week aged 40 (the police suspect he was murdered), is one such story. I had met him with his mother at their house in South Delhi in 2014, a day after Narayan Dutt Tiwari, a four-time chief minister and former Andhra Pradesh governor, finally publicly acknowledged him as his biological son. For six years, Rohit Shekhar had been fighting a paternity suit against the powerful politician.
That late afternoon I had expected to meet a triumphant, or perhaps
