Karan Puri's book #MeToo is a deep account of the resilience power of those who have gone through traumatic sexual abuse.
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Disclaimer and Trigger Alert:
This article is about my own reading experience being an independent reader.
This book is an account by the author which speak about how heart wrenching the real ordeals were but as few scenes are raw and brutal so few may act as triggers for some.
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This is a collection of 6 short stories. Sexual harassment has been going on for hundreds of years. Women are seen as the vulnerable gender and when they go through such ordeals they society silences them.
But with #metoo movements thousands spoke up. These stories that touch different points in this spectrum effectively burst another bubble of myth. They paint the fact that the word 'Me' in #metoo is not limited to one gender but it is for an individual who may be from any gender possible, age or economic background.
A story that puts question mark on who can be truly trusted if the devil lurks inside the closest of all a kid learns to trust. Another one tells about the healing process of a high performance man hidding a similar past.
Few more paints the existence of this heinous crimes in work places and places where in the name of religious-spiritual healing self-claimed godmen take advantage of others.
Their painful journey alongside their healing process has been been highlighted which act as a reminder of our rights to speak up against wrong and not be remain silent and give a way to it in anyway.
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