Meena's Story
Based on a true story, `Meena's Story' coversa span of nearly eighty years from 1939 when
her mother, Elizabeth Burdett, stumbled on an escalator in London and fell into the arms of
a dark, handsome Indian. Before long, she boarded a P&O liner bound for Bombay, to
join him.
The voyage to Bombay was easy. The myriad challenges that faced her from the moment
she was led to hide in the servants' quarters of her Muslim husband's family house in
Hyderabad, that was something else - comic, ironic, and tragic in equal measure.
Set in India, Pakistan, England, and Canada, Meena's `flight to freedom' is not an escape
from captivity, but rather an escape fromhaunting memories. The physical and
geographical dislocations that affect Elizabeth(named Zareena by her mother-in-law)
enmesh Meena as well.
Swapna Gupta brings to a story of simple livestossed about by forces of religion and political
violence a sensitivity and understanding that weaves together threads of love, family
attachments, fear, loss, and remembrance in a moving narrative.
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her mother, Elizabeth Burdett, stumbled on an escalator in London and fell into the arms of
a dark, handsome Indian. Before long, she boarded a P&O liner bound for Bombay, to
join him.
The voyage to Bombay was easy. The myriad challenges that faced her from the moment
she was led to hide in the servants' quarters of her Muslim husband's family house in
Hyderabad, that was something else - comic, ironic, and tragic in equal measure.
Set in India, Pakistan, England, and Canada, Meena's `flight to freedom' is not an escape
from captivity, but rather an escape fromhaunting memories. The physical and
geographical dislocations that affect Elizabeth(named Zareena by her mother-in-law)
enmesh Meena as well.
Swapna Gupta brings to a story of simple livestossed about by forces of religion and political
violence a sensitivity and understanding that weaves together threads of love, family
attachments, fear, loss, and remembrance in a moving narrative.
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