I could not put down 'Aarushi' as soon as I started reading it. Based on the infamous murder of a young teenage girl in Noida, the book reads like a thriller from start to finish. Right from the murder to the multiple investigations to the court room drama to the Talwar's current life in prison, Sen becomes a fly on the wall as he observes the minutiae of the Talwar family drama. I have read criticism of the author as being overtly biased towards the Talwars, which is why certain intellectuals/ journalists reject the book. They argue that there is no rebuttal, no point of view of the other side - the police, etc. But it is hard to imagine what motive Avirook Sen would have had in cooking up or buffing up the Talwar side of the story.
At any rate, even if the book is just the Talwar's story of the Aarushi murder, the glaring holes in the investigation and the gangrenous nature of our judicial and police limbs would and should worry any average Indian.
An important book.
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