Stealing Green Mangoes: Two Brothers, Two Fates, One Indian Childhood

A memoir-written in the wake of a cancer diagnosis-that zeroes in on the crux between two brothers: one who became an LAPD officer, and the other a terrorist.

Sunil Dutta is a twenty-year veteran of the LAPD. Before that, he was a biologist at the University of California and a translator of classic Indian poetry. Before that, he was a destitute refugee, one of so many uprooted by the genocidal violence surrounding the Partition of India. Back then, he had a brother. Back then, they were chi...