So throughout reading Nectar In A Sieve I stumbled upon something that just stuck with me until I finished the book.
Truth.
The cold, hard, honest truth.
This book and Ruku's life shows the truth about how people lived in India in these times. How little they worked for, how little they lived on, how they learned to survive on the little they had.
After reading this book I learned that truth it is Hindu belief that 'truth transcends over all other moral values.'
I 100% believe that is true and Ruku gives a perfect example of that. Ruku always remains true to herself, and that is the most important way to be truthful. In all the tragedies that Ruku had faced she always remained truthful to her old, traditional ways.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
What more can a woman ask for?
'While the sun shines on you and the fields are green and beautiful to the eye, and your husband sees beauty in you which no has seen before, and you have a good store of grain laid away for hard times, a roof over you and a sweet stirring in your body, what more can a woman ask for?'
I admire this quote from Nectar In A Sieve.
If every person could look at things in this perspective when the going gets hard then the world would be alot better.
I have really enjoyed how Kamala Markandaya makes every tragedy end up kind of peaceful and calming. I also admire how Ruku is able to get through every hardship knowing that she'll make it through it all okay.
Reading this book has also taught me to be very proud in the fact that I live in a country where I can have as many or as little children I want, without judgement. Ruku lives in fear because her first child was a girl and not a boy, and it takes her another six years to finally have a son. A women should not have to be in shame because she is unable to bear children or because she gives birth to a girl and not a son.
I admire this quote from Nectar In A Sieve.
If every person could look at things in this perspective when the going gets hard then the world would be alot better.
I have really enjoyed how Kamala Markandaya makes every tragedy end up kind of peaceful and calming. I also admire how Ruku is able to get through every hardship knowing that she'll make it through it all okay.
Reading this book has also taught me to be very proud in the fact that I live in a country where I can have as many or as little children I want, without judgement. Ruku lives in fear because her first child was a girl and not a boy, and it takes her another six years to finally have a son. A women should not have to be in shame because she is unable to bear children or because she gives birth to a girl and not a son.
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