30 Years in the Searing Sun by Kalavathi Raj is a profound memoir of a woman who looks back at her childhood and romantic encounters until she got married. As the title suggests, the book narrates the tussle, plight, and struggle of the author for straight 30 years, covering her childhood, school days, corporate profiling, encounter with various types of good and bad men. Other than romance flings in a female life, the book also sheds light as how the Indian patriarchal society looks down at a girl child. The first part brings the pain and misery of the girl received by her father. By all means, her childhood was bereaved of love, with no one around to comfort her. She turned alone and aloof! She hailed from an army family, subsequently, the frequent transfers of her father added salt to her wounds. In one instance she was forbidden to eat non-veg during the lunch time, and at another instance, her mother cared nix when she bled during periods. Life was quite unfair for the girl. T...
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