India, Feb. 24 -- You call the fratricidal killing of 22-year-old prince Amarendra Chandra Pandey a "thoroughly modern murder". What made you say so?

The mode of the murder is a novel bio-crime, essentially. Rather than murdering his half-brother with a crowd of goondas armed with clubs and machetes or in a hunting accident, all of which were time-honoured modes of getting rid of your fraternal competitor in cultures around the world, the killer, in this case, chose to use - or rather misuse - medical science towards the aim of money, profit, and a delicious lifestyle.

However, it's not only the mode of murder but also the purpose for which [Benoyendra Chandra Pandey] wanted money, which was not simply to accrue land and power as brothe...