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Gitanjali Nagpal is suffering from fear psychosis. Maybe it’s rubbing on to few of us as well. My strong mind which could not identify the emotion of fear suddenly shook. I felt spooked in the nights. I’d stare at my room windows and shudder suppressing a silent scream. The first few days of reading The Blind Assassin (by Margaret Atwood), a Booker prize winning novel, I was deeply disturbed by the bipolarity of it. As ever, I took up to reading another book simultaneously, The Silent Witness (by Richard North Patterson) - a la Grisham – in a sleazy way I must say. The state of my mind in the initial days of reading these two books together was vulgarly in deep fear. I recall, Mike Atherton’s (Ex-captain of England cricket team) father once said that to know what his son was thinking like, at a given moment, one had to find what book he is presently reading. Now about the books:   The Blind Assassin is a beautifully woven story into another. This brocade of two female protagonist...