Let Me Be Born Mother by Santosh Srivastav , Asha Singh Gaur | Book review

Book review:

I picked up this book and thought it will be mother daughter relationship book but the content of the book gave me goosebumps. I was aware of extremities the women or girls are destroyed or harassed but this book was beyond my imagination. I could feel the words and pain behind it.

"Let Me Be Born Mother" is a book that tells you exactly why some people are shouting out loud for the rights of women. It is a book of pain, abuse, injustice, facts, and figures, stories of women who braved their surroundings to voice their concerns, women who refused to surrender, and women who died fighting for justice but paved a path for others to follow. 

I appreciate the way the author has highlighted the pain, agony of women and how the whole cycle of devastation of women is going on. Her beach word brings life to the women who have struggled for life and many who died living as a corpse. Can women fight for themselves or will pave way for more demolition of women? 

But giving up is not the solution. Changing these rules by giving birth to a girl child is the answer to 'The Silent Scream'. Quote from the book:

In the words of young poet Hemant - Let me be born, Oh Mother! So that with the ink of flames,

holding the pen of fire, I write the song of rays, which will bury the rotten and sodden past of women, locked away in chests and rise like the sun from the east."

The author has highlighted every social demon in this book starting from female foeticide, dowry deaths, abandoned widows, and objectification of the female body. She has given voice to thousands of pain-stricken stories that were waiting to be told. The book also talks about sexual abuse, inequality, injustice, and the status of being the weaker sex.

Overall, this book is meant for each girl to understand the pain of other girl and instead of thinking herself a curse become a saviour of many others. Worth a read.