My subject, the political henchman from Bhopal, was thirty-five years old, and freely admitted to having sex with (aka raping) adolescents. Here’s one of our conversations about it: He: “Even twelve/thirteen-year-olds have sex, more than even me. They learn early.” Me: “With whom? How old are the men?” He: “A girl that age will have sex with even a thirty-year-old! A fifteen-year-old would readily have sex with me.” A subject from Kolkata, who made no such admission, interrupted our interview in English to put it ineloquently in his Bengali-flavoured Hindi: “Fresh banna hua bread mein har koi
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