Jaya Kamlani, a US author, walked down the dusty villages of India where normally politicians do not reach.
She had a mission in her heart. The world has given her everything.
Now she wanted to give something back to society. She had faint memories of miserable conditions of women in villages of India.
She walked in far villages of India. She talked with illiterate women and learned about their hardships.
She recorded their stories. She did intensive research and documented about the conditions of women and child labour. She documented how small girls from villages are trafficked for sex purpose or for serving as bonded maid servants in houses of affluent class in the cities.
The fact that she used words "Tough Love" in the title of her book says a lot about her book.
We are forced to see what we do not want to see about the condition of women in villages.
Every month I receive a case where a woman is burned alive in small villages. The husband and relatives are jailed. They have lost in first court and appeal court. And they ask me to plead their case in Supreme Court.
No doubt, I work hard for my clients. No doubt I try to impress on Supreme Court that mental condition of woman was responsible for her death.
But inside me, some part of me too burns down when I try to look at case from the view point of village woman who is no more in this cruel world.
I do hope that the book is widely circulated so that political pressure on government and on courts can be built up.
The book is presently at the libraries of the leading colleges in Mumbai. In the coming months it will also be at the leading colleges of Delhi.
(C) Haresh Raichura 
