Reseña del libro "Speedpost (en Maratí)"
The relation between a mother and her children is the most primitive one, they are tied together tightly through the umbilical cord and through their minds as well. This new era has given a different depth to the relation between a mother and her children. This new era, with its collapsed moral culture and disintegrating virtues is shattering and challenging the relationship, the faith on each other. The internationally famous author Shobha De, has written letters to all her 6 children as a mother. These letters are compiled together in this book. Each mother will find them close to her heart; each letter reveals a mother's mind. The letter reflects the worries of a mother, the burden on her heart and mind in the anxiety of her children's welfare. Today's competition and the world with its vice and temptations is more than enough to make any mother anxious. Topics like the family, the relationship, the family culture, traditions, the insistence on being virtuous, strict discipline, the revolutionary attitude of the young generation, the lengthy phone conversations, the bills causing severe arguments in the house, the lingering parties till midnights, the internet chatting, The list is endless; all this is compiled in this book. It also includes the topics like adolescence, love at a tender age, the physical attraction, friendship with its various dimensions, choosing a partner, and the disputes in the close relationships. Country, god, religion. social liabilities, sense of citizenship! The topics are various, the incidences are different. These letters will show the tender love of a mother, full of affection, full of worries. She loves you, she beats you to awake the sleeping senses. She teases, she ridicules. She makes you laugh, she makes you cry. She has written these letters, full of all the feelings you wish to feel, each letter will touch every lively mind.
