Indian Homemaker's blog

This reading list, as demanded by friends has mostly best sellers, popular and light reading. (Though some might make you cry).
Please do add more to this list, any books related to women that inspired or moved you...?

Traditionally these men would be labelled Joru Ka Gulam.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Some Joru Ke Gulam (JKG) I am proud of : ) 
[In India it takes a lot of guts for a man to take a stand against customs that oppress women, it's worst if he is fighting in support of his wife (Joru)! All such acts of courage are rewarded by labeling them as JKGs = Joru Ka Gulam. Literal meaning: 'Slave of Wife']

When my kids were young I saw friends struggling with their jobs and babies, guilt ridden, short of time, confused and judged by many. I sympathized and was relieved I didn’t have those worries. Within a few years their kids grew up, just like mine did, many were more independent, but many were just like my kids. A few more years and here I was feeling left out, lost and even useless, and they all had risen in their careers, their kids were proud of them.

(Yemen) …"a 12-year-old girl died in childbirth after an agonizing 3-day labor. …young Fawziya was pulled out of school and married to a man twice her age."
She isn’t the only one.

A single mother Donna’s twenty year old daughter Sophie is getting married and would like her father to ‘give her away’. Her mom won’t tell her anything about her father (because she doesn’t know herself), but Sophie discovers her mom’s old diary and finds the three men, one of whom could be her father. She feels she will know him when she sees him and without telling her mother, invites her three potential fathers to her wedding…