Friday 14 November 2008

My Feudal Lord...

Finally, I've come across a book that makes the life of Afchineh Latifi look like a piece of cake.
"My feudal lord" is a book written by Tehmina Durrani who shares her silence and struggle with her amazed readers. The book's centre point is Mustafa Khar , a well known Pakistani politician, who mistreats his wife , Tehmina Durrani, and his in-laws.

The sickening part of this book is that it has actually happened in reality and there are more men like Mustafa Khar in this world. Usually when a reader comes across a fiction book like Lord of the rings or Alchemist, he wishes that it could have happened in real. But this is one book that you don't even want to happen in fiction. The amazing part of this book is the tolerance level of Tehmina and all the sufferings she silently endured.

While I read this book many questions popped in my head such as,

1. Why did she choose to suffer silently?

2. Why do human beings still feel so weak n miserable when they have God on their side while
the entire universe is against them?

3. What is more worse and degrading?

- The mother who chose to make her family silently suffer so that she can save their name and
self-respect?

- The daughter who chose to sacrifice her self-respect for the sake of her family?

Its depressing that there still are many women who suffer the intolerable pain and yet say nothing. Most women do it since they fear they have nowhere to go or they will lose everything..! Is money or house more important than your self-esteem and respect? I would certainly prefer living on street than being dominated by cruel men. Who is to be blamed? Women, who choose this lifestyle OR society who allow such things to happen and say nothing for the sake of their image?!

I have only reached half part of this book and im already disgusted but I am glad she chose to stand up against a tyrant man like Mustafa Khar!

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