Exchange of Identity
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Kareena Ray's elegant story tells the tale of two young girls caught up in piquant situation.It is spiced with humor and subtle detail and speaks with universal eloquence to anyone who has felt the emotional confusion of religion. The protogonists belong to the affluent middle class of urban India. They lead a carefree existence in the loving environment of a close knit family. At the threshhold of adulthood an unexpected discovery causes mayhem in their young lives.Asha and Ameena learn that they had been inadvertently exchanged at the maternity home when they were barely a day old. When the truth is revealed, the girls have to face the fact that that they not only have a new set of parents but also a new religon. The book attempts to delve deeper into the motivation of religious beliefs. Does one believe in a religion only because they are born into it? Does the accidental discovery of being the product of another religion, change one's line of thinking. Are Asha and Ameena compelled to change their religion along with their name. Will they have to metamorphise into Aisha and Meena to adjust with their new families?
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About the Book
A story that will tug at your heartstrings and make you question your identity and beliefs. The book describes the lives of two young girls growing up in loving families in urban middle-class India. Their paths have never crossed, but on the eve of their eighteenth birthday, the teenagers discover that they had been inadvertently exchanged at birth in the maternity home. As they get to know their birth family, the protagonists have to deal not only with a new set of parents and siblings but also a different religion. The book attempts to delve deeper into the motivation of one’s religious beliefs. Does the accidental discovery of being the product of another religion change your beliefs? Asha and Ameena, living a carefree existence in affluent families, are thrown into a vortex of conflicting emotions as they interact with their birth family. With a slight adjustment in name, Aisha and Meena attempt to integrate in the new environment. The impact on their love lives are intertwined into the story.
About the Author
The author has a keen intellect and razor-sharp mind. Her vivid imagination explores the conflicting emotions that arise in the minds of two young girls as they discover on the threshold of adulthood that they have been inadvertently exchanged at birth. What is the basis of one’s beliefs is a question that she attempts to answer.