About the Book: Freedoms Mother
One war often merges into another. One lonely journey subsumes the anger of a
million footsteps. When Safia Begum walked out of the New Eskaton mansion in the
middle of the night with her young son, to protest her husbands second marriage,
she had no idea the war in her inner courtyard would one day merge with her
lands bloody battle for freedom. Anisul Hoques Freedoms Mother traces the
invisible link between a gutsy womans rebellion and a peoples fight for
independence. Long before womens rights became a fashionable term, Safia Begum
protected her dignity as a wife and turned her back