India, Nov. 12 -- It took 35 years for Margaret Atwood to return to the dystopian world she created and finally write a compelling sequel to her widely-acclaimed novel, The Handmaid's Tale. The novel regained popularity in post-Trump America, and the Handmaid's garb became a symbol of resistance among women fighting for their rights to their own bodies. Gilead no longer seemed a distant land in pro-life anti-abortion America, and it was soon adapted to television, in a series that has been shocking the viewers since 2017. The irony, however, is that this 'thought-up' Gileadean theocracy was never a fragment of Atwood's imagination; every incident that takes place in the book had some precedent in human history. The same is the case with the...