What are the motifs in Song of Kali by Dan Simmons?

Violence flows throughout Dan Simmons' novel, Song of Kali, both as acts of commission such as in the form of street assaults, rapes, murders, and abductions and as acts of omission, where the government and society fail to guarantee some minimal and even survivable quality of life for all. Many times the horrors of the sprawling chawls, the slums or tenements that grow up outside grim factories, are described.