My Mother Did Not Go Bald: A Daughter's Memoir

My Mother Did Not Go Bald: A Daughter's Memoir

Living with the dying, and not letting them know that they are dying day-by-day is what makes the life of a carer challenging. And if the patient is own mother, it become more difficult. My Mother Did Not Go Bald, a memoir, holds a mirror up to life around hospitals, the inhuman and detached behaviour that patients and their caregivers have to endure in Indian hospitals. Most importantly, it highlights the importance of administering palliative care if cancer was diagnosed at an advanced stage. The book is a tribute to Dr MR Rajagopal, the founder of palliative care movement in India, who was honoured by Human Rights Watch with Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism in 2014. "Honesty on each page makes the books different": The Hindu - "A song from the broken heart." : The New Indian Express - "Myriad emotions! An unpretentious narration!": Preetha Saramma - "The book prepares the reader for only certainty in life, death." : Geeta Chhabra - "The structure of the work is remarkable." : NRS Babu "Honesty on each page makes the books different": The Hindu - "A song from the broken heart." : The New Indian Express - "Myriad emotions! An unpretentious narration!": Preetha Saramma - "The book prepares the reader for only certainty in life, death." : Geeta Chhabra - "The structure of the work is remarkable." : NRS Babu I never thought my first book would be a memoir, and that too a pathography. A cathartic exercise, my book happened much before Dr Atul Gawande wrote his Being Mortal. "It touched me from the very first word to the last. The observations are sharp as well as accurate, coming from a self-respectful person who cares for everything in life. The tendering of it's of brilliant sincerity." NRS Babdu, Senior Journalist, Kerala, India "It takes another language, a subjective tongue, to reveal the wound in terms medicine cannot address. If the storyteller chooses, or dares to engage that voice, then the illness emerges as the transforming experience it really is. The most important point to drive home is that Nazeem dared to engage her voice." Maythil Radhakrishnan Nazeem Beegum ia a journalist by profession. My Mother Did Not Go Bald: A Daughter's Memoir is the revised the version of My Mother Did Not Go Bald, which was originally published in 2014.