Book details:
Title : Sita's Curse
Author: Sreemoyee
Piu Kundu
Genre: Feminist
Erotic Literature
Publisher: Hachette
India
Price: INR 350
"Somewhere, behind closed doors in her solitary world;
Somewhere, under the sheets with an indifferent lover; Somewhere, is a woman
who will not be denied..."
Sita’s
curse is about MEERA PATEL, the story is of a woman who is fearless to explore
her sexuality.The book starts of with
a masturbation scene(Yes, kindly embrace sexuality here).Sexual details are vividly described in every
second page. The author starts off with describing her parts with
aplomb
and later sticks on to “HER SEX” (err vagina isn’t a bad word!!) .Sexual content in the book did not bother me, what bothered me more was the fact that I
assumed it to be a story of a woman who embraces her sexuality, rather than one
who is super HORNY, she has sexual fantasies with her twin brother, with a
girl, and almost everyone.
The
book has been divided into two parts: the first part starts when Meera is
thirteen and the second when she turns thirty. The book starts off with her
childhood and her love and bonding she has towards her brother. However it
turns weird when her own brother starts lusting for her!!! (errr, whatttt!!!!).
She is discussing her breasts, changes in her body with her BROTHER (Some bond I tell you). She has
fantasies of her dance teacher (and mind you she hasn't attained puberty
here!!!). Oh and she does make out with her dance teacher, witnessed by her
brother. Surprisingly, she knew exactly what to do!!. Her brother gets troubled
as he wants her only to himself (Creepy). He Is sent off, and later dies. (one
down, how many more to go).
So in
an attempt to find someone who would make her feel; as karthik did, she makes
out with everyone (even a girl). She even makes out with a stranger who saves
her from the river (a complete stranger, mind you!!)From a dance teacher to a
guruji, her “sex chat lover” – meera is depicted to have a insatiable appetite
for SEX. To add to it she is married to a guy who can barely get his “organ”
up. He rapes her the first time they make out. But all is forgotten, and she
tries to crave his sexual attention every single time (Yawn). And not to forget
, she also leches at her brother in law, and unabashedly watches him making out
with his wife (errr, CREEP ALERT).
Im
surprised she doesn't make out with Bansi (her brother in law, I guess the
author let him be). The other main characters are a Guru and Yosuf(a guy she
meets online). She makes out with the guru and obviously with yosuf!!. The
Mumbai floods come in picture, where yosuf and her husband go missing. However
meera , the insatiable woman that she is, believes in masturbating the day her
husband goes missing. Also Chottu abruptly disappears as well.
My
expectations after reading the blurb were super high. It was a complete dud for
me. Has she done justice to the way the book is defined by many : “Bold, brazen and defiant, Sita's Curse looks at
the hypocrisy of Indian society and tells the compelling story of a
middle-class Indian housewife's urgent need for love, respect, acceptance and
sexual fulfillment." I wouldn’t agree.
Yes Sreemoyee, we women do crave
physical pleasure. We lust , we masturbate!! And there are bi-sexuals, and
lesbians. However meera here comes across as a nymphomaniac, who requires
medical HELP!!!
Couldn’t
help but wonder if she transmitted any STD’s.
Rating : 3/10
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