MUMBAI: For three tense hours on Thursday afternoon, Rohit Aarrya held 17 children, a 75-year-old grandmother, and a studio staffer hostage inside a Powai recording studio. By evening, the standoff ended in gunfire — the children were rescued, and Aarrya lay dead. But the story that led to that moment began long before the sirens, the shouting, and the flashing lights. Aarrya was not a criminal. Nor was he a terrorist, as he made clear in a final video recorded from inside RA Studio. “I just want answers,” he said quietly into the camera. “I don’t have any demand for money. I have moral questions — and I want to talk.” The 45-year-old was a social entrepreneur and project-management consultant who had once worked with the same government that he would later accuse of betrayal. An alu

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