Dolly manages to show how the Indian state is deeply implicated in escalating the culture of sexual violence and impunity in Nagaland by extending the fields that feminists in conflict regions have explored to date. The arc of violence now must be seen to extend from a militarised nation and a militarised region downwards to the constituent units upon which its edifice is located: home, family and community. This is a book that deserves the widest reading; it will make us all think about impunity in multiple ways and perhaps help to widen the resistance that we must spearhead in seeking a more just acknowledgement of the harm women and men experience when they are sexually assaulted.