There had been a couple of red flags during the day. When he had come to our hotel in the morning, he had expressed surprise that Amit and I had different rooms. In his worldview, it seemed everyone had an indiscriminate sexuality; and men and women couldn’t have non-sexual relationships. Another discomforting point, which, to me, indicated deep and dark power and empathy issues: he narrated how he had beaten a thief he had caught, and made the man drink his pee, direct from source. (The humiliation he had meted out made him laugh, ha, ha.) He had also displayed abject insensitivity to a
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