My Joys and Sorrows: Dr Krishna Saksena’s book ‘My Joys and Sorrows: As a Mother of a Special Child’ encompasses numerous elements of a mother’s life. Her book covers her journey as she raised her youngster with particular requires, and the challenges that came with it. If one is seeking for it to be a complete book with great English and laid out in a chronological order, then they would probably be disappointed. But that is mainly because that does not look to be the goal of ‘My Joys and Sorrows’.
Her book highlights all the elements – the superior, the undesirable and the ugly – of raising a differently abled youngster at a time when such children had been rejected by the society. And it is not all roses, mainly because even as a mother, she had her fair share of dark thoughts. But what strikes me the most is the resilience, the urge to not give in to these thoughts even in the face of a society that stood against her youngster.
More than getting a story of just this one mother, the book is a deeper understanding of how a mother is generally left at cross-roads, getting to from time to time decide on among her personal children. Dr Saksena generally had to neglect her other children to take care of and to like Shiv, her differently abled youngster, mainly because no one else would. Frustrated and angry at her fate and that of her son, she generally discovered solace in spirituality and religion, and that is some thing that can be prominently discovered in the text.
The book is by no implies the glorification of a mother, but it rather brings to the forefront the more human side of the lady who is generally anticipated to serve her family and hold their most effective interest in thoughts devoid of any complaints. It highlights how from time to time even a mother could possibly not have all of the answers, how helpless she could possibly really feel at the hand that her children have been dealt and how she could possibly require to look at a person else, be it one more individual or a superpower, to come across the strength that she is generally anticipated to provide to her family.
As a complete, the text is scattered and does not have a unique flow, and for a person who is not a mother or in that circumstance, the book could possibly not hold significantly appeal, but it does give an insight into what a mother – any mother – could possibly have to go by means of in diverse phases of motherhood. With no suitable chronology or coherency at most locations, a standard reader could possibly not be the most satisfied with this study, but as I stated in the starting, that does not look to be the goal of this book.
My Joys and Sorrows – as a Mother of a Special Child
Author: Dr. Krishna Saksena
Published by: Ocean Book Pvt Ltd
Pages: 85
Price: Rs 300.00