Publisher: Omji Publishing House
Verdict: ☆☆☆☆ An engrossing tale that will touch your heart. Women oriented book which will make you cry in the end. A book which everyone should read.
About The Author: Avantika Debnath is a writer at heart and dancer at soul but to earn a living she works as an HR professional in a multinational company. She hails from the City of Joy: Kolkata, West Bengal and stays in the City of Nizams: Hyderabad, Telengana. She has done her Bachelor’s from Calcutta University with Major in English and has an MBA degree from The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI).
About the book: “The Bridal Pyre – Nainam Dahati Pawakah let me color it all with the blood of my heart let me color it like the vermillion sky Have you saw the sky so Vermillion before?????O Let it all be red like this vermilion sky, and the tears in my eye Have you? The sky appeared like someone scattered a box of vermillion on it. But this Vermillion had nothing as scary, as haunting, as suffocating as the vermillion she had just washed off her head, like a jet of blood, or like the blood that flushed out, in between of her legs just a couple of months ago. ‘Don’t touch me anymore, Abhi. I will be sullied, I will be stained, I will be dirty…” Her fatigued body had no strength to clean itself again. Meera was just another contemporary Indian woman studying, working, and dreaming of a beautiful home, a doting husband. Married off to an NRI, she realized that this marriage was her destitute. Harassed for being a modern educated woman by her in-laws soon Meera turned into a barrel to fish out money from her retired father to provide for the U.S returned son-in-law’s education, fashion, and lifestyle. As advised by her mother – girls need to adjust a little after marriage – Meera adjusted to every turn life took. The only turn she couldn’t adjust take was at the staircase where she lied helpless witnessing her child flowing out of her womb – thick blood drenches her yellow cotton saree red. She stood up. One against all, claiming justice for the child she never saw, and the humiliation her parents “I have seen such strong men cry like babies while getting a broken bone fixed. How are you bearing with this pain so tranquility?” asked the doctor.”Maybe I am not a man, but what made you think that I am not strong?” Ambushed by the police, the lawyers, the judges, politicians, big businessmen, media, she couldn’t be stopped. She could not be broken or be burnt….And they said even the holy Ganga would refuse to immerse her… She was no more a body with a soul. She was a soul with a body. And the soul doesn’t get She sat on her pyre and set it ablaze….The Bridal Pyre….but, Nainam Dahati Pawakah
Review: The cover of the book “The Bridal Pyre” is very nicely designed perfectly explaining the concept of the book and matches with the title. The blurb itself will touch your heart and will urge you to read the book. These days Domestic Violence, Criminal acts of In-laws is prevalent in our society, and the author had narrated all these incidents in the life of a young girl Meera very beautifully. I could not stop my tears while reading the book. Each woman will relate to the character Meera. The problems she faced in her Marriage life and the way she came out of it was really heart-touching. Specially when she was pregnant, and her mother-In-law closed the door, and she was unable to go to washroom actually made you chilled down the spine, and I could not hold my tears. This concept is the most controversial idea, and one can never stop talking about it. The narration was fascinating, and one cannot halt the book till you finish it. The moods of Meera were very nicely defined by the author. The climax was beautiful, and it will surely make you smile. Overall a lovely book everyone should read.
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