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Death on Birth
Obien Mayo
Daastan Publishing
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Editor(s)
Summaiya Naveed
Aimen Siddique
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Book Cover Copyrights
Afeef Ahmed
Contents
Listen to my Eyes (Call of Deaf)
Preface
This book is about how different people-- mainly women-- are exploited by society and how they face many hopeless, helpless situations for their survival. It is a collection of short stories and verses centered on women and their sentiments. In my early childhood, I simultaneously saw a lady fulfilling the duties of a mother and a father. She was my mom. At that point, I saw the fathers of many kids around me and found no man performing a woman's job as flawlessly as my mother was doing that of a man's.
The curiosity that followed caused me to explore the reality of this dilemma. I then observed every woman, from a maid to a lady in a more significant position of authority, and discovered one thing common in most of them: the humiliation they received from society and the tag of being called an 'inferior creature.' A woman working 24/7, doing a variety of odd jobs, giving birth, dealing with children and spouses, and doing so much more. I wondered how could she be inferior to a man while working more than a man?
It alarmed me that something wrong had occurred for centuries, and most of us had not even noticed. Sadly, even ladies of higher authority administering urban communities and divisions were treated brutally by their spouses at home. I, likewise, watched some women abusing other women (mainly on account of mothers-in-laws.) However, their history showed that they were either tormented by their husbands in their adulthood or by someone else in another dominating role. That insecurity and abuse they suffered from caused them to oust their catharsis on other women. In this entire scenario, I realized that it was a social injustice to inflict misery on women. I wanted to do something more for them, something that would help highlight their sacrifices, powers, strengths, resilience, and beauty. So, I chose to turn it into their voice. I decided to become the voice of any victim and began writing, starting from the issues women in our society experience. I was doing my Pre-Medical when I wrote the story of Isabella titled 'Death on Birth.' It is not just the story of a fictional character but of every individual who is tormented, harassed, bullied, frightened, and compelled to pursue an undesirable, pointless fancy. It demonstrates how society makes our lives hard even though it is effortless to live and survive. 'Death on Birth' portrays the unseen death of victims before their actual death. Yes, it does happen; some of us die at an early age, even if our physical death occurs at a later age. Humans are not granted mastery of all the options we are born with. Let's say a girl or boy is not born according to our defined beauty category. Even if that is not in their hands, another value like good conduct is. If a woman gives birth to a girl, that's not her choice; it is that of Nature. If a widow is free to get married, who are we to object to it? These are just a few of the numerous examples. So, right at the moment when we accuse someone of something they have no control over and force someone to compromise on an option Nature has given them, we become murderers not only of that person but also of humanity because, in some situations, compromise itself is a justified practice of death.
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