Escape
April 5th, 2009
Where every family wants a hundred sons, but not even one daughter, where infant girls are killed using many ingenious methods, or even simpler, not allowed to be born, in such a land, what is the future of womankind?
Manjula Padmanabhan’s recently published novel, Escape is the dystopian vision of such a society where the no-girls policy has been taken to its extreme; for now, it is not only individual families that conspire to kill women, it is the government itself that has officially outlawed and exterminated women…
The rest of it, over at Ultraviolet -Â my review of Manjula Padmanabhan’s recently released novel, Escape.Â
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Hard to visualize such a situation.i mean the plight of the single female specimen in an all man’s world.Draupadi had to deal with 5 husbands was better placed.But the way society ends female foetuses this may become a bitter truth in the near future.
Padmaji, it is hard to visualise, but Manjula Padmanabhan has done a good job of it, without sounding like a documentary. Worth a read.