I read the piece with interest and once I got past all the exclamation marks, what I was left with was a sense of Ms De’s staggering unfamiliarity with her subject. This continues in 2013: The accused is ‘Rajesh’ Talwar, not Ramesh. Perhaps some poor fact-checker will now be fired, but I think it’s fair to say that if you’re going to call someone a monster, it makes sense to get his name right. However, let’s set this one aside. Ms De’s piece outlines, with some authority, how grieving parents ought, or ought not to, behave. She calls the reactions of the Talwars “puzzling”, “bizarre”, “too calculated”; grief-stricken parents behave “differently”. According to Ms De, they are normally “rendered incoherent”. This is the quality of evidence. But in this country, perception trumps proof. (I would no doubt be given the harshest sentence in South Bombay: death by mwah mwah). http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/1863657/column-shobhaa-de-and-death-by-mwah-mwah