Zara Chowdhary’s powerful debut, The Lucky Ones, is pitched as a memoir, but it is much more than just a personal story. It is, rather, an exploration of the dark recesses of Indian society ...

But Chowdhary’s memoir is not from the point of view of one (directly) brutalised by the mobs. She witnesses many of the most infamous moments of the genocide – the gang rape of Bilkis Bano ...