Ranjit Kaur Arora

Travels and Travails Ranjit Kaur Arora

The first in an exciting trilogy of semi-biographical memoirs that spans the early life and adulthood of a young Sikh woman with an independent mind. Set in the wake of an independent India, Mona, a fictional character, must decide whether she should do what is expected of her or do what she feels is right in her heart. The book maps her childhood, education, arranged marriage, divorce, migration and the struggles that came along the way. All will be moved, impressed and inspired by the author's anecdotes, memories, and reflections and by her determination to travel always onwards. It is a thought-provoking and engaging book of feelings and experiences of nature, family, and friends. In the words of a reviewer, 'Mona emerges as an exact model of an imperfect human being-at one level a most confident. independent, rules-breaking, brave, bold, fearless and resilient fighter, in tandem, being vulnerable. gullible, easily hoodwinked and confused.'