The more it changes…

Strangers No More is hard reading, backed by the slow despair of most of the stories — a 15-year-old girl shot crossing a barbed wire fence between Bangladesh and West Bengal en route to her own wedding. The fact is that a legacy passed down by the British has continued 70 years after Independence with little or no mitigation of brutality and no room for the people of the North- east in the heart of India... A review