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It is the story of three women Nisha, Shilpa And Devi. Their stories are dealt in separate chapters but they merge in the end like rivers intermingling in the ocean.
“You are adopted.”
These three ominous words are intermingled in the book The forgotten daughter by Renita D’Silva.
Nisha is the cool collected child of two scientists. She is a mathematician and writes down any emotional problem and works on it clinically like her parents for whom showing emotions is difficult. Nishi lives in England. It is when she has an emotional crisis ‘catholic prayers rusty from disuse and held court….surprising she had led them and it had calmed her, for whom not two weeks ago, mathematics the solid rigidity of numbers had been religion.’
Shilpa who has craved for children is willing to go to any sacrifice to have them but her comfort is not science or doctors but a madwoman by the peepul tree. The madwoman has been given A gift from God to see the future. And she just listens to her as the gospel truth. She also writes a diary in which she shares her recipes.
Devi is tempestuous and willing to fight for her rights and not mince words. She rebels in her own way by not wearing the clothes expected of her. Both Shilpa and she then lived in India. Later Devi moves to England.
There are glimpses of our nosy and noisy bustling country. The bonding which can only happen in India between neighbours who are privy to your every secret and yet always there to help you is an example.
The book is about motherhood fragile relationships love between men and women. The different Gods who are equally benevolent whether it is the catholic god of the Hindu God. It is also about destiny the unseen hand which always plays a major role in your life.
The description of India through Nisha’s eyes is lyrical …the jack fruit-scented breeze instructing the coconut tree grinds to bow down and say hello.
Lately one binge-watches web series but after a long time I binged read this book and it was unputdownable.
Image is the cover page of the book
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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