I have known
the author since her first book 'A Journey in Search of Happiness' – a it was a
bang on book to my quest of being happy over roaming for being successful. Now
this book, The 9 Colours of Vibrant Women is another great offering to boost up
the morale of women across the world. This book in particular details about the
colours and its allied values in women's lives. Every colour indicates some or
other virtue or trait, for example purple colour suggests Creative, Grandeur,
and Wisdom.
The author
explains the colour traits and virtues to her growing daughter Anila after she
is being devastated getting to know the shocking story of Nirbhaya, who happens
to be a girl from her neighborhood. If you have read the previous book in the series, you will be then familiar with the mother daughter duo, Shivani and
Anila. Mother Shivani wants to instill 9 colours of vibrant women in her
daughter Anila. For that, she chooses the occasion of Navratri, so that she
could get one lesson each night.
Every chapter
starts with first shortly explaining the avatar of Goddess Durga and her role
in Hindu religion. Next, Anila gets her lesson on the colour, to explain
lucidly, Shivani uses real-life examples to talk about the strengths and
struggles of women in that particular colour trait, for example, in the pink
colour, she drills down to women like Aparna
Lavakumar, Kousalya Periasamy, Manasi Pradhan – most of us have not heard
these names, as they are not from very conventional or glamour fields, rather
hail from something like social activists, an HIV victim, a police officer and so
on. However, the thing to understand is that be it sports, movies, politics or
sports or social or government job, women have all that to lead from the front.
Thus, by quoting quotes and examples of women from diverse backdrop, the author
wants to make us aware of the women power around. Every chapter has around 5
stories to inspire us in all possible sense. I liked this part particularly,
because in the first book the author used mainly quite famous and glittering
examples of personalities to inspire Anila.
Though there
have been many books on women talk, power, and betterment and not to forget
feminism; however, the weightage and substance Ramya leaves is superb.
Other than
bringing women coverage, the book shines brilliantly in the end when we see
formation of two teams, Red and Blue, to tackle the situation of rapes in
India. However, it was a sort of a dream but if implemented, well it can bring
wonders to all. Women safety and mobility matters, and Anila was quite fervent
and enthusiastic to bring some changes to the society for the betterment of women.
The dazzling
aspect of the book is coverage on Self
and Situational leadership. Mother Shivani taught all this to her daughter
so that she could be a better and capable self leader and adjust and align
herself as per the situations and skill sets.
This is sheer
delight to have read number of coverage on women empowerment. I never felt as I
am reading something non-fiction, the book evolves far better as it chugs
ahead. Once again, Ramya R. Moorthy showed as why she is considered one of the
best self-help book authors in India. A must read for all–women it’s full of
you–you must grab it. Highly recommended!
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