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100			_aJoseph, T. J. _910673
245			_aA thousand cuts: _ban innocent question and deadly answers
260			_bPenguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd. _aHaryana _c2021
300			_a305 p.
365			_aINR _b599.00
520			_aIn 2010, T.J. Joseph, a professor of Malayalam at Newman College, Kerala, framed an innocuous question for an internal examination that changed his life forever. Following a trumped-up charge of blasphemy, members of a radical Islamist organization set upon him in public, viciously maiming him and chopping off his right hand. His memoir, told with amazing restraint and wry humour, is the moving tale of his life and family as they went through hell and beyond. Here’s the extraordinary story of a man who survived dismembering only to be betrayed by his own Church. Let alone stand by him, it robbed him of his livelihood and isolated him from his community, driving Joseph’s long-suffering wife to melancholia and eventual suicide. Joseph’s story is one of fortitude, will power, forgiveness and compassion, told with rare wit that will make readers chuckle through their tears. This is a tale that will leave the reader seething, weeping and smiling by turns.
650			_aVictims of terrorism _911656
650			_aIndia--Kerala _911657
650			_aCollege teachers _98721
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