Kamal Ki Auratein

Amazing women are those who endured so much and remained so; amazing women are those who put the whole world at stake for some desire of theirs; amazing women are those who kept giving their husbands the opportunity to become great by hiding all their qualities; amazing women are those who became the subject of childrens jokes, but still kept blessing them; And amazing are those women who are our younger or elder sisters, aunts, grandmothers, so much of whose lives have been spent waiting for a call from their parents home, where their brothers, fathers, mothers, sisters-in-law, nephews, and nieces will embrace them, listen to their sorrows, ask how they are doing, if they have any sorrows... The collection Amazing Women features all kinds of womensuffering, lonely, rebellious, eager to break up their marriages, yet ready to be consumed by themall of whom find expression in Shailaja Pathaks emotional languagejust like the conversations of a leisurely afternoon. Many of these women are well known to the prevailing feminist discourse, but there are some whose suffering has not been reflected in the same way by modern perspectives. Its a good thing that this collection contains ample poems about them. Sisters and aunts who age prematurelywhose countless sorrows disappear unnoticed on the dusty paths between their parents home and their in-lawsreading about them in these poems is like suddenly arriving on an island of sorrow...shocking!