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GAURI
I want to breathe one day
An air without filters.
I want to live a life one day
Without judgments.
I want to live one day
Free, from everything.
It's just a dream, isn't it?
They can never let you be free.
I am Gauri.
A no one from a nowhere village named Jaala.
My father is a drunkard. He beats us a lot.
My mother is like every other woman in our shy and silent.
Don't worry, I am just like my mother too.
We are poor, very poor.
I am alive just because of my best friend and her mother.
I like studying very much, but towards what end?
Nothing mentioned above is my misfortune.
My main misfortune is that,
I am in love.
Isn't it something to be happy about?
But, I am in love with a lower caste boy.
That’s sad.
We love each other so much.
We are soon going to run away.
But something else has happened.
Something, that I was destined for.
A Sin Between My Legs is a story of love, dreams, hope, loss, reality, degradation, rape, murder, trauma, rebellion, healing, and femininity; seen through the eyes of a teenage girl.
An air without filters.
I want to live a life one day
Without judgments.
I want to live one day
Free, from everything.
It's just a dream, isn't it?
They can never let you be free.
I am Gauri.
A no one from a nowhere village named Jaala.
My father is a drunkard. He beats us a lot.
My mother is like every other woman in our shy and silent.
Don't worry, I am just like my mother too.
We are poor, very poor.
I am alive just because of my best friend and her mother.
I like studying very much, but towards what end?
Nothing mentioned above is my misfortune.
My main misfortune is that,
I am in love.
Isn't it something to be happy about?
But, I am in love with a lower caste boy.
That’s sad.
We love each other so much.
We are soon going to run away.
But something else has happened.
Something, that I was destined for.
A Sin Between My Legs is a story of love, dreams, hope, loss, reality, degradation, rape, murder, trauma, rebellion, healing, and femininity; seen through the eyes of a teenage girl.
110 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 9, 2018
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January 25, 2018
one of the best books I have read in years.it really touched my soul ,so much hard work, emotions put in to this book and giving a voice to the women who has been muted in situations like this very well done, I could rate in over and over keep up the good work waiting for wonders out of you Saumyata :)
xoxoxo
Call Me Sacred, I am a Woman
Lay me in white sheets
And bath me with milk
Wipe me with the water of the Holy Ganges
And tie me in the
Verses of the Holy book
Cover me with red
And gold
Call me sacred
Call me sacred
A body
A desire
Is hidden under the cloth
Don't say them aloud
Woman
You are sacred
You are sacred
A soul is shattering
Wailing Inside me
Freedom!
Freedom!
Freedom!
😍😍
xoxoxo
Call Me Sacred, I am a Woman
Lay me in white sheets
And bath me with milk
Wipe me with the water of the Holy Ganges
And tie me in the
Verses of the Holy book
Cover me with red
And gold
Call me sacred
Call me sacred
A body
A desire
Is hidden under the cloth
Don't say them aloud
Woman
You are sacred
You are sacred
A soul is shattering
Wailing Inside me
Freedom!
Freedom!
Freedom!
😍😍
January 15, 2018
Gauri: A Sin Between My Legs
By Saumyata Bisht
Gauri is only sixteen and has lived her whole life in the suppression of her caste and the drunken brutality of her father in a small village in the Himalayan foothills.
Her best friend Hisa and her desire to become educated are her only hope in a dark world where women are beaten and raped daily.
Then Gauri meets Shyam and falls in love. For a few brief months a new and wonderful life beckons and hope blooms eternal, before the reality of life and death begin to snatch it back.
With her first novel Gauri: A Sin Between My Legs, Saumyata Bisht has joined Anita Desai, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai and Anita Nair as a fresh and powerful voice for women in the Indian subcontinent.
Her book is a tragedy in 12 parts, guaranteed to engage the reader with both its sublime storytelling and its poetic style.
“We were cardamom and mint and wanted to seep down and disappear… but, we had it in our destiny to float and put a show for the world to see.”
Although written as a novel – a vehicle to protect the identities of people she knows – Gauri: A Sin Between My Legs is a gripping insight into a world rarely seen in the West.
At times the book reads like a brilliant work of romance and in places is poetic in a metaphysical form that John Donne or Lord Byron would recognise. And above all else it is a tale of purity, love and romance in a world gone wrong.
It is almost Blakean in its beauty as an innocent young girl is corrupted by men into a world of experience.
But Gauri: A Sin Between My Legs is much more than just poetic romantic novel.
The love, romance and beauty is splintered with abuse, rape and degradation, murder, mysticism and pregnancy and childbirth, in a style that is impossible to ignore and hard to put down.
It explores in depth the enforced sanctity of virginity before marriage (so-called being ‘Sacred’) and then the absolute desolation of a woman’s sacredness by rape and violation – often by a husband, uncles and friends of the husband. And women who become untouchable if they fall in love with a man from a lower caste.
Gauri: A Sin Between My Legs is certainly a life and death work, and given a chance this love story may well begin to enlighten millions of people around the world.
One of the best pieces of new original writing I have read in 20 years as an editor.
By Saumyata Bisht
Gauri is only sixteen and has lived her whole life in the suppression of her caste and the drunken brutality of her father in a small village in the Himalayan foothills.
Her best friend Hisa and her desire to become educated are her only hope in a dark world where women are beaten and raped daily.
Then Gauri meets Shyam and falls in love. For a few brief months a new and wonderful life beckons and hope blooms eternal, before the reality of life and death begin to snatch it back.
With her first novel Gauri: A Sin Between My Legs, Saumyata Bisht has joined Anita Desai, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai and Anita Nair as a fresh and powerful voice for women in the Indian subcontinent.
Her book is a tragedy in 12 parts, guaranteed to engage the reader with both its sublime storytelling and its poetic style.
“We were cardamom and mint and wanted to seep down and disappear… but, we had it in our destiny to float and put a show for the world to see.”
Although written as a novel – a vehicle to protect the identities of people she knows – Gauri: A Sin Between My Legs is a gripping insight into a world rarely seen in the West.
At times the book reads like a brilliant work of romance and in places is poetic in a metaphysical form that John Donne or Lord Byron would recognise. And above all else it is a tale of purity, love and romance in a world gone wrong.
It is almost Blakean in its beauty as an innocent young girl is corrupted by men into a world of experience.
But Gauri: A Sin Between My Legs is much more than just poetic romantic novel.
The love, romance and beauty is splintered with abuse, rape and degradation, murder, mysticism and pregnancy and childbirth, in a style that is impossible to ignore and hard to put down.
It explores in depth the enforced sanctity of virginity before marriage (so-called being ‘Sacred’) and then the absolute desolation of a woman’s sacredness by rape and violation – often by a husband, uncles and friends of the husband. And women who become untouchable if they fall in love with a man from a lower caste.
Gauri: A Sin Between My Legs is certainly a life and death work, and given a chance this love story may well begin to enlighten millions of people around the world.
One of the best pieces of new original writing I have read in 20 years as an editor.
August 25, 2018
With Absolutely No Doubt In My Mind I Can Unhesitatingly Rate “Gauri-A Sin Between My Legs As One Of The Finest Writings By Far That I Have Read Not Just In 2018 Alone But In Quite A While..I Refrain With Hesitation & Trepidation To Call This A Book As Time & Again In The Hard Hitting Introduction The Author SAUMYATA BISHT Has Cautioned...To Quote The Author In Her Very Own Words YOU ARE NOT READING A BOOK, YOU ARE Reading A Mind..
“THIS IS NOT A BOOK...Don’t Delude Yourself To Think It Is...THIS IS LIFE!!!”
“THIS IS NOT A BOOK...Calling It One Would Be Deceit...THIS IS A FEELING!!!!”
“THIS IS NOT AN ORDINARY STORY...For A Second Don’t Think That It Is!!!”
Before The Message Starts To Sink In, The Author Throws The Final Challenge At The Reader...”SO WHY DO YOU HAVE TO READ IT? Because Every Chapter Is A Story In Itself...You Have To Weave It Together..EVERY SENTENCE HAS A MEANING....You Have To Find It...EVERY WORD IS A CRY...You Have To Listen To It.
You Have To Wait As The Mind Unfolds, As The Truth Scatters, As The Tragedy Happens And Then You Realise “That This Is The World You Live In!!!!”
Even This Cold & Yet Stark Message Does Not Prepare You For All That Is To Follow.
There Is Absolutely No Doubt That This Book Is Certainly Bound To Shake You By The Time It Wraps Up As It Bares The Ugly Underbelly Of What We Prefer To Slide Under The Carpet As The Bitter Truth Is Too Hard To Digest.
What However Cannot Be Denied Is The Fact That For Her Debut Novel It Could Not Have Been Easy For The Author To Bring Alive GAURI & All That She Is Forced To Go Through For No Fault Of Hers.The Way Her Dreams Crumble And Her Innocence Is Crushed Cannot Leave You Unaffected.
All Said & Done, There Is Absolutely No Denying That SAUYATA BISHT Is Simply Brilliant In Her Maiden Novel!!!
“THIS IS NOT A BOOK...Don’t Delude Yourself To Think It Is...THIS IS LIFE!!!”
“THIS IS NOT A BOOK...Calling It One Would Be Deceit...THIS IS A FEELING!!!!”
“THIS IS NOT AN ORDINARY STORY...For A Second Don’t Think That It Is!!!”
Before The Message Starts To Sink In, The Author Throws The Final Challenge At The Reader...”SO WHY DO YOU HAVE TO READ IT? Because Every Chapter Is A Story In Itself...You Have To Weave It Together..EVERY SENTENCE HAS A MEANING....You Have To Find It...EVERY WORD IS A CRY...You Have To Listen To It.
You Have To Wait As The Mind Unfolds, As The Truth Scatters, As The Tragedy Happens And Then You Realise “That This Is The World You Live In!!!!”
Even This Cold & Yet Stark Message Does Not Prepare You For All That Is To Follow.
There Is Absolutely No Doubt That This Book Is Certainly Bound To Shake You By The Time It Wraps Up As It Bares The Ugly Underbelly Of What We Prefer To Slide Under The Carpet As The Bitter Truth Is Too Hard To Digest.
What However Cannot Be Denied Is The Fact That For Her Debut Novel It Could Not Have Been Easy For The Author To Bring Alive GAURI & All That She Is Forced To Go Through For No Fault Of Hers.The Way Her Dreams Crumble And Her Innocence Is Crushed Cannot Leave You Unaffected.
All Said & Done, There Is Absolutely No Denying That SAUYATA BISHT Is Simply Brilliant In Her Maiden Novel!!!
January 25, 2018
She offers her readers an important insight into many significant issues that continue to be central to the lives of women everywhere today.As a genre includes narratives with strong ties to the woman’s state in rural parts of the world .Though it has got it's flaws such as inappropriate and incoherent expletives at times but that's where the essence of constructive writing lies .
February 8, 2018
You are not reading a book.. Mind it..You are not reading a book.. You are reading a mind.. I am sure the author has proven this in the book... Not involving many characters is the best thing.. Keep more of them coming.. #Saveagauri#
September 5, 2021
Good text many memories
An interesting book that provokes readers to action.
Written in The Greek style of prose and poetry which facilitates memories and allows empathy into the dialogue.
An interesting book that provokes readers to action.
Written in The Greek style of prose and poetry which facilitates memories and allows empathy into the dialogue.
May 16, 2020
Heart touching novel
Loved the narration of the story, felt the pain and the suffering she went through, and at the end, was shocked with tears in eyes when she commitrf suicide
Loved the narration of the story, felt the pain and the suffering she went through, and at the end, was shocked with tears in eyes when she commitrf suicide
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