Book Review : The Tandoor Murder by Maxwell Pereira Rating ****
I saw this incident on TV in 1995. The television had entered cable TV era from age old Doordarshan and a dozen or so news channels catering to viewers ever hungry for hot news. The tandoor murder fed them well. Author have complete knowledge of the incident since he was himself a top cop involved directly in the case. The book is a thorough account of that infamous murder popularized by cable TV news era. The real story is quite small and straight forward caused the author a lot of pain to convert it into a commercial book. This causes the book to be unnecessarily lengthy with unnecessary details. The details of autopsy/postmortem is very dirty to read and unnecessary for a common non technical reader, but author had to do it to fill the book. The case was quite straight forward, that a criminal politician killed his keep and police, judiciary, government spend crores of rupees just to prove it in court of law though they had truckload of evidence with them. What a tragedy a