Title- Three Thousand Stitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives
Author- Sudha Murty
Publisher- Penguin India
Year- 2017
Format- Paperback
Pages- 256
Genre- Non-Fiction, Biography
Rating- 4.5/5 stars
Three Thousand Stitches is a collection of memories woven with love. This book has amazed me thoroughly. The quality of this literary work can be easily understood by the fact that the book not only entertains its readers but also educate them and inculcate a sense of responsibility in them.These are some inspiring accounts of struggle and triumphs, not only of the author but also the people she met in the course of her life.
Though all the essays are amazing and motivates us a great deal there are a few that touched my heart. I would like to share them with you. The first essay "Three Thousand Stitches " narrates the author's sole fight against the malpractice of Devadasi tradition. In the rual parts of Karnataka, Young girls were pushed into the dark world of prostitution in the name of religious offering. Through Infosis foundation, she helped them by establishing schools for their children, nightclasses for the devadasi girls and provided them with all kinds of legal and administrative support to establish their own bank. Overtime, She successfully saved 3000 women from this heinous system.
The problems she faced as a female engineering student in her college at Hubli and how she survived there and learned some valuable life lessons has been portrayed in detail in the essay "How to beat the Boys".The lack of ladies toilet in her college helped her understood the difficulty faced by many women in India and led her to build more than 13,000 toilets in Karnataka alone.
I absolutely loved the story " Cattle Class" which actually portrays the mindset of the upper-class people towards the people who belongs to the lower strata of the society. Besides, the essays "No place like home" which vividly paints the plight of the working class women in the middle-east countries and "A Life Unwritten" will surely make you cry.
The language is very simple.Anyone with the basic knowledge of English language can go through these essays and enjoy them. I give this book 4.5 stars and highly recommend it to readers of all age group.
Happy Reading
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nice review
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