ANTYODAYA
Chapter 2

The Open Hand

I never met Veer Pratap. Almost no one did, in the way you mean it; there are perhaps nine people alive who can tell you what his voice sounded like when there was no lens running, and four of them lie about it. So I have built this chapter the only way it can be built — out of the tapes, of which there are thousands, and out of the testimony of the people…