Mahashweta
By Sudha Murthy
It’s a fictional story of one woman’s life. It’s a story of her ups and downs in life, her courage to face truth and struggle to start new living.
She is born in poor family with stunning beauty. She met a smart, handsome and intelligent rich man. They fall in love with each other and got married. For her it was a dream comes true. Everybody was envy on them. But soon few months after marriage her life start taking down turn as she developed lucederma. ‘Lucederma’ still it is known as curse, an illness that mostly comes from ancestors, it’s a hereditary illness. People look lucedermic person either with sympathy or doubtfully.
She also faces the same situation, sympathy, ill-treatment from step-mother, ignorance from doctor husband. Her husband who had promised her to be with her for lifetime but after knowing that she developed lucederma, he not only forgot his promise but also didn’t give a reply of her letters.
Now she was so frustrated that she started thinking for suicide but soon she left that thought and started creating her own world and became happy.
On the other her husband finds himself is emotional trap as he ignored her when she needed him most. Now cursing himself as he couldn’t do justice to his love.
Even though story is fictional, but the theme, characters are so common that we can think that these are around us. This can happened to anyone. So it feels touched.
The most interesting thing about this book which inspired me to read this book is I read a story in ‘Wise Otherwise” book of Sudha Murthy. That story about youngster who fell in love with a girl and with their parents wish they got engaged. But after engagement his fiancee developed lucederma. So he takes aback marriage thought. But to comeout from this situation he spends most of time in library and there he read “Mahashweta”. He read that book almost 10 times. He thought about plith of that girl and don’t want to become like her husband. So after that he married to his fiancée. Sudha Murthy attained this marriage just because of curiosity as she got handwritten message with the invitation card.
So I too just read this book out of curiosity as I thought how a fictional story could change one’s mind-set. I too felt touched with story.
By Sudha Murthy
It’s a fictional story of one woman’s life. It’s a story of her ups and downs in life, her courage to face truth and struggle to start new living.
She is born in poor family with stunning beauty. She met a smart, handsome and intelligent rich man. They fall in love with each other and got married. For her it was a dream comes true. Everybody was envy on them. But soon few months after marriage her life start taking down turn as she developed lucederma. ‘Lucederma’ still it is known as curse, an illness that mostly comes from ancestors, it’s a hereditary illness. People look lucedermic person either with sympathy or doubtfully.
She also faces the same situation, sympathy, ill-treatment from step-mother, ignorance from doctor husband. Her husband who had promised her to be with her for lifetime but after knowing that she developed lucederma, he not only forgot his promise but also didn’t give a reply of her letters.
Now she was so frustrated that she started thinking for suicide but soon she left that thought and started creating her own world and became happy.
On the other her husband finds himself is emotional trap as he ignored her when she needed him most. Now cursing himself as he couldn’t do justice to his love.
Even though story is fictional, but the theme, characters are so common that we can think that these are around us. This can happened to anyone. So it feels touched.
The most interesting thing about this book which inspired me to read this book is I read a story in ‘Wise Otherwise” book of Sudha Murthy. That story about youngster who fell in love with a girl and with their parents wish they got engaged. But after engagement his fiancee developed lucederma. So he takes aback marriage thought. But to comeout from this situation he spends most of time in library and there he read “Mahashweta”. He read that book almost 10 times. He thought about plith of that girl and don’t want to become like her husband. So after that he married to his fiancée. Sudha Murthy attained this marriage just because of curiosity as she got handwritten message with the invitation card.
So I too just read this book out of curiosity as I thought how a fictional story could change one’s mind-set. I too felt touched with story.
