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Book Review: Mahaswetha

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  #Fiction Title: #Mahaswetha Author: #SudhaMurthy Genre: Fiction My favorite lines: Even though the female child is stronger than the male child at birth, as adults it is the man who becomes the oppressor, and the woman who suffers.   ‘Like Rohini to Chandra, like Lakshmi to Narayana, am I to him. Just as the creeper depends on a tree, emotionally I depend on him. I cannot live without him, and for his sake, I am ready to renounce everything. Let society say anything it wishes. I do not care. . .’ Till death do us part. . .” And that is my promise to you   Marriage is a gamble. The result cannot be predicted beforehand.     ‘Why did God give strong arms and the courage of a lion to man?’ ‘So that he can rescue helpless women, the distressed, and the forsaken   she had been climbing a sheer mountain face clinging to a rope for help, and then found that the rope had turned into a snake old wounds became raw again My life has become a play now