Kishwar Desai has the knack of hitting on exactly the right subject for her books at the right point of time. She’s done this three times now, starting with gendercide in Witness the Night, womb-renting in Origins of Love and now unsolved rape in The Sea of Innocence. Perhaps you could put it down to a journalist’s nose for what makes news, since Kishwar is a columnist with television experience to her credit. Of course, it’s too much to expect that Kishwar would have predicted the ‘Nirbhaya’ incident and, as a matter of fact, that occurred as the book was going to press and was written into the commentary of the work, to provide ballast and forceful substance and that to a book that was on a similar subject.