Avanti Jadhav’s presence also ensured that Jadhav’s wife retained her calm in the coercive atmosphere in which the meeting took place.

India had sought visa for an Indian woman diplomat based here to accompany the two to Pakistan but this request was rejected by Islamabad.

These writers are also re-scripting the conceptions of Indian society and history while challenging prevailing literary conventions.

Forty one villages, two thirds of whose population live below poverty line, have proposed to pay Rs 35 crore.