The Diplomat On Netflix: How I Saw A Violent Parallel In My Own Abusive Married Life!
The most humiliating incident happened when my boss, the respected environmentalist Sunita Narain was in my region along with the then Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh and Maharashtra Chief Minister Shivraj Patil to formally inaugurate bamboo harvesting by tribals under the Forest Rights Act. I had a deep connection with the event — the Forest Department had been obstructing the tribals from harvesting their own bamboo, and my report on the subject had drawn Sunita’s attention, which is why she had worked with government to make it happen. I had a warm sense of having made a difference with my writing. I wanted to go alone — it was my work after all, but he insisted on coming with me to the event, even threatened to come on his own if I didn’t take him. I took him along because I was afraid if he came on his own he might throw tantrums. And once there he tried again and again to siddle up to Sunita, in the hope of a photo op while I worked to report live on this event that was making history in the area of forest rights.
