This is a book of powerful personal testimonies of five middle class English speaking Indian women who have been sexually abused as children by their close family members. In this book, they share their experiences of childhood incest and its impact on their lives.
These stories provide a disquieting glimpse into the nature of incest, and how, when not dealt with at its roots, it emerges in adult life in the form of symptoms which seem to have no ostensible link with its occurrence. They are also about healing and transformation, and about the courage of women and children in the face of adversity. Every single story ends on a note of hope and the promise of a new life.
These stories are meant for women everywhere, for those who are survivors and those who are not, for those survivors who are in recovery and for those who think perhaps there is no way out.
The book was brought out by my organisation RAHI Foundation in 2000. It has been edited by my partner and colleague Ashwini Ailawadi. RAHI (Recovering and Healing from Incest) is a support centre for adult women survivors of incest and child sexual abuse in New Delhi, India.
Excerpts from the five stories follow.
A must read.
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