Then, she meets Meena and no amount of professional integrity or power can keep her feelings inside. She knows to keep her heart closed and just do her job. Smita is used to covering the third world tragedies that still occur, not only in India but across the world. Smita had grown up in India and her experience there resulted in a promise to herself to never return. Smita is a journalist, called to India for a reason she misunderstood. This is my third book by her and I will read more when the time is right. I am grateful for my friend at PBT, Joy, whose reviews encouraged me to read Umrigar's works. She is honest and digs at the heart with a shovel that uncovers the raw truth of things. :Thrity Umrigar's books are never easy to read. Let Govind and his ink cling to their misguided notion of honor. “This is what it meant to care so much about another human being that you were willing to sacrifice everything, even pride and respect.
Instead she had become a symbol of the old timeless India, a country scarred by ignorance, illiteracy and superstition, governed by men who dropped the poison pellets of communal hatred onto people who mistook revenge for honor and blood lust for tradition” pg 160 “Poor Abdul had thought that his daughter would be the heir to a new modern India. Nobody taught us what I know today- the most dangerous animal in this world is a man with wounded pride” page 131 “As children, we were taught to be afraid of tigers and lions. Especially when she told Abdul she was pregnant. I also was very emotional with Meena’s story. I would never push my beliefs on someone else like they were pushed on Smita’s family.
Throughout this novel I kept asking myself how can people be so blinded by religion and cast? Fear? Because it’s all they know? It’s so frustrating how people just are trying to live and they are discriminated due to their own beliefs. Two great pieces of literature that I would recommend reading in your lifetime. I really enjoyed the writing and it reminded me a lot of The Kite Runner and The Stationary Shop. Another story that is hard to read but at the same point important to do so.
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