India continued to be at war with police brutality for an extended period of time. However, in recent years, police brutality in India has increased significantly. Police brutality demonstrated to readers in the beginning and throughout the novel Q and A by author Vikas Swarup. The main character of the novel, Ram Mohammed Thomas, is first seen being detained by the police after winning a million rupees on a quiz show, How to Become a Millionaire. The cops are harassing, abusing, and humiliating Ram as they look into what occurred in the game show if he cheated or is it pure coincidence. The author Vikas Swarup accurately portrays India's police brutality in the novel Q and A. In Naureen Shah's article, Abusive and Abused, shed light on the issue of police brutality by the Oscar-winning movie "Slumdog Millionaire". Police torture is widespread in India. To punish offenders or obtain confessions, whether they are real or not, police officials believe that torture is an essential tactic. …show more content…
He described how arrests are commonplace in the largest slum in Asia. Following the answering of a few questions with incorrect answers. Godbole began to wonder how someone like Ram managed to win the game show. Ram continued to be questioned by Godbole torturing him in order to extract a confession from him, whether it was true or not.“Godbole has been punishing me for more than an hour, but he has still not finished. Every half hour or so he comes up with a new instrument of torture. First he inserted a wooden rod into my anus. With chili powder smeared on it. It felt as if a molten,searing spike was being driven through my backside. I choked and gagged with pain. Then he thrust my head into a bucket of water and held it there till my lungs were about to explode”(Swarup 12). This demonstrates that India’s police rely on torture as their primary method of obtaining information from