May you find and live your truth, in harmony with people, nature and the environment. You can email me at wish you all a life inspired by the wonder of the world around us. Anyone familiar with world affairs knows how the cure may have been worse than the disease. This book captures the distress visited on people whose leaders recklessly decide upon a shocking course of action, thinking somehow this craziness would bring about a happy ending. The author tells us the events of this book are loosely based on her father’s side of the family who traveled much as Nisha and her family did from Mirpur Khas to Jodhpur, amid fear and violence, but eventually arriving safely to meet their destinies. In time, this changes as her nurturing side reappears in a time of great need.
Nisha’s trauma increases until she completely stops talking.
Nisha captures the anguish of this heartbreaking time in history, “I am broken. The ordeal takes its toll on the millions forced out of their homelands into unknown circumstances. Nisha terribly misses having a mother and writes to her memory daily keeping her informed of what’s going on in their lives. The twins’ mother died giving birth to them.
Why were they allowed to rule over us in the first place? Didn’t they have their own people to worry about?” Dyslexic Amil answers, “Sometimes the world as you know it just decides to become something else. Nisha ponders, “I wondered what that meant to be free from the British. Nisha and her twin brother Amil react differently to the chaos around them: Nisha is analytical Amil is pragmatic. Always enemies, the hatred among these groups still exists to this day. Hatred and fear reign on all sides despite the pleas of Mahatma Gandhi who peacefully led the successful campaign for India’s independence from British rule. Written in epistolary format, twelve-year-old Hindu Nisha fearfully watches as her world falls apart when government officials declare a new India with millions of people forced to walk for days in the hot sun to permanently move to a new country-all Hindus, Sikhs, and smaller sects to the new India and all Muslims to the new Pakistan. Set in Summer to Fall of 1947 when British rule in India ends, independence is gained but in an attempt to separate the warring factions, chaos ensues. Book Review: The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani (2018) (Middle Grade) (Historical Fiction) 5 Stars *****
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