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Tryst With Power (Indira Gandhi) by Nayanthara Saghal
Book Video Review #2. Be sure to drop your comments below, follow the channel and blog. I’d be happy to make new friends as I make book video reviews.
Book Video Review #3
As you know, I’ve started doing book video reviews as a #booktuber and my reviews would be book-fiction books. One of the last few weeks, I reviewed #whatitoldmydaughter and this week is for #trystwithpower which is about #IndiraGandhi
I read a lot of non-fiction books: memoirs, biographies and autobiographies from my school days, and the women featured in these books and their stories have truly inspired my life to date and turned me into a fan of non-fiction books, especially stories from the Middle East.
I will try to post the video reviews for the books I have read in the past once I have cleared the books in my TBR list. Or probably do them concurrently. For those of you who are new to my blog, you can check out my video reviews or #booktube here on YouTube.
M book video reviews
Shameby Jasvinder Sanghera (Memoir)
Shame
Jasvinder Sanghera, CBE, is a campaigner who
fights against forced marriages and honour-based crimes in the UK. Shame is her
memoir that walks us through her life as a victim of forced marriage at the age
of 14. Jasvinder was born into a Sikh family living in the UK. Her parents
emigrated to the UK from India before she was born, and the family still has a
very close connection with their roots in India.
Jasvinder ran away from home to escape her
marriage and had since been outcasted by her family. Jasvinder’s pain of being
rejected by her own mother and family because of her choice to not get married
was saddening and it tells the reader the importance of being accepted and
loved by family members in order to have a fulfilling life as one grows up.
Jasvinder had a failed a marriage and after
that found the love of her life. She went on to study at a university after
having kids and founded Karma Nirvana to speak for the victims of forced
marriages, both men and women, in the UK. A highly recommended book for anyone
looking turn adversity into strength.
Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman’s Survival Under Saddam Hussein by Jean Sasson (Biography)
Mayada
One of the most disturbing books I have ever
read. The details of how women suffer behind the bar during the time Saddam
Hussein was in power, as described in this book, were too harrowing and
sickening. I had to just pause a few times while reading as I was baffled with
the fact that women can be treated so lowly just because they were put behind
the bar.
Mayada is the granddaughter of one of the most
prominent leaders of Iraq, and she was arrested for a crime she did not commit,
which is printing leaflets against Saddam at her shop. The rest of the story is
about what happened to her and the rest of the ‘Shadow Women’ in the jail. She
got out the jail quickly and was not tortured like the rest of her inmates.
While the incident is based on true events, I
did not find any potential conflict of interest over the story of this book,
yet. It is highly recommended to anyone who loves being teleported to a
different world, especially Iraq and the Middle East.
Burned Alive: A Survivor of an “Honor Killing” Speaks Out by Souad (Biography)
Burned Alive is a story of a woman surviving
honour killing after being tried to be murdered by her family members for getting
pregnant with her man she loved. This story will open your eyes to how women
were tortured in past by denying the rights to express their thoughts freely.
This event took place in the seventies, during the time when women’s rights
movement had not gained prevalence in many parts of the world.
Souad lived in a society that considered a
seventeen-year-old girl to be an old maid, and she lost hope in getting married
to a man of her family’s choice because her elder sisters were still not
married, and she was left with no choice but to wait for her sisters’ turn to
come because older girls were married off first. She fell in love with a man
and got pregnant with him. The pregnancy was kept a secret but soon the family
got to know about it and attempted to murder her and her child.
Souad recalled the story after some twenty
years this incident happened to her from a place somewhere in Europe, where she
lived after escaping her home country. Although Souad later got married, found
an employment opportunity and learned a second language, she preferred to keep
her whereabouts a secret due to the fear of her family tracing her back and
killing her.
Highly recommended for those who like to read
about the lives of women in the seventies in of the Middle Eastern countries.
Book Video Review #2. Be sure to drop your comments below, follow the channel and blog. I’d be happy to make new friends as I make book video reviews.
As you know, I’ve started doing book video reviews as a #booktuber and my reviews would be book-fiction books. Last week, I reviewed #nujeen and this week is for #whatitoldmydaughter