Rafiya Khatun

Palkon se gire sapne Rafiya Khatun

This book is a hard-earned life memento of an uncommon Muslim Woman who challenged the cruelest of social atrocities in her pursuit for a better tomorrow. From her early childhood hardships as a victim of child marriage, teen pregnancy, physical and psychological abuse, lack of shelter, illiteracy and nevertheless acute poverty; to her journey to be a providing parent and becoming the guardian of her dreams. A story of a scared yet a fighting heart, who fights her illiteracy with backpacking to school with her children, who provides the roof for her family, even if, she has to work as a manual labourer and amid the scariest of societal boycott, stands up against the orthodoxy to become an independent identity beyond a failed marriage. As you go further with the chapters you will realize the sheer vigor of a woman who changed her reality by just saying to herself 'NO MORE!'.

A must read for those who wants to know the challenges of a modern destitute Indian women, who struggles even in her dream to aspire for her dreams!