"I know the job," he says. "But I have my demands."

A genealogy of hangmen in India:

"Hangmen are used and discarded. They are stigmatised. Authorities will have to apologise for the things they said against my father," he says.

"After my father carried out his last hanging, none of the authorities came to our house to find out how we were living. Nobody cares."

It's a tremendously fascinating story, and you should go read it all.