After I Was Raped: The Untold Lives of Five Rape Survivors

I am so glad that I picked up such a powerful book to start the year with. It is thoroughly researched and makes the reader feel as if they are there in the houses and villages of the people who have been wronged. There is also so much legal knowledge that most of us must know, but is not accessible to us. I would greatly recommend this book and hope another one follows soon to keep its impact going as our country badly needs it.

"After I Was Raped" testifies in favor of the fact that words bleed emotion and strips the reader of the reality she / he is familiar with. A book that makes you go through a rollercoaster of feelings - of disappointment, of horror, and finally with a gleaming ray of hope and faith. It's a must MUST buy for anyone who needs to embrace their darkest, their forgotten - to be FREE.

The incidence all five victim's in the book is bone chilling. This books is not recommended for soft hearted readers.

After I was raped is comes in the category of non-fiction, I was read many emotional books but no was able to make my eyes bleed but why? Because this book consists the real accounts of rape victims. I wanted to read this book because wanted to know how a rape victim overcome the trauma of incident, after rape how their change drastically, how society see them and how their own family support the rape victims and do they get justice or not. I don’t have the courage and power to review the real life stories of rape survivors but I have to. From starting it was good and it is a very short read. I got to know many informative things about the law to protect women from rape, it shows how rape has many motives. This is the story of five rape victims, their stories are heartbreaking, and how some people escape from being punished using unlawful activities and how much time they wait to get justice. It is my first on a topic like this but overall I loved it. I loved this book.

Urmiiiii... This is so amazinggg.Waiting for my copy to arrive :)I know it is going to be an amazing read. Looking forward to more books from you :)

The writer has mastery over the subject matter and explores the lives of survivors in unprecedented detail. A triumph of journalism

“She was never treated as a human being,But as a body,Simply a body.A body whose birth at times considered as a burden to the people who are engulfed in bien pensant.A body, if voyages to edify herself, may outcry the dinkum oil of the society.A body whose menorrhoea stain is a filth for the society.At last, she was just body who could be used to satisfy brutes' hunger and thirst.Little did she knew,That this four-letter word would change her life & leave her with blood and gore.”Yes, I am shrieking about RAPE!'After I Was Raped' takes to the horrendous and painful account of five rape survivors — Nidhi, Meera, Ranjini, Pia and Smita.Nidhi - a four-year-old kid who was raped by a man whom she summoned as 'bhaiya'.Meera - a forty-year-old, Dalit woman who was raped by a priest. Later she was asked to undergo the two finger test which tells about the tightness in vagina.Ranjini - a thirty-year-old, Dalit woman who was raped by a Gujjar man and was questioned if she was really raped or not!Pia - an eight months old baby, who was raped by her own twenty-eight-year cousin and had to undergo several surgeries.Smita - a twenty-eight-year-old, was raped twice at her workplace.The readers/individuals who have read it till here, what do you expect from me — a review? Definitely, not, I suppose! But, all I expect from you, is to read this book and understand the pain these women have gone through, educate yourself and others & be a human. I wish someday this world would be a 'Rape Free World'.