Introduction
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ISBN –
9788184003512
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Genre:
Non Fiction
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Publishers:
Ebury Press
/ Random House
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Price:
Rs. 299/- (I got this book from the publisher for a review)
Imagine the world around you slowly blinking out, your familiar world
disappearing into darkness till you begin to doubt not only the world’s
existence but your own as well. In this terrifying blindness can you find the
light?
This is L. Subramani’s inspiring story of triumph.
He suffers from Retinis Pigmentosa, a condition causing gradual and
incurable blindness, which affects one in three hundred Indians. Lights Out
shows with painful clarity the debilitating process of going blind and the
agonisingly bewildering effect it had on him. In this unfamiliar and
disconcerting situation he battles his disability to strive for normalcy, till
he transforms his most crippling weakness into his greatest source of strength.
Behind
The book
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About
the author
L Subramani is a senior sub-editor and reporter with the Asian Age
newspaper. He has been associated with a network of patients who are suffering
from retinal diseases. This network helps reaching out to families and
caregivers in an effort to provide information, mentorship and emotional
support.
After a long time I read
a book that shook me from inside and haunted me long after I was done. I know
someone very closely who suffers from this disease and to say I have witnessed
his descent into blindness would not be wrong. But the author’s strength and
firm determination moved me beyond words.
With every page that I
read of this book I did not have pity for the writer, rather I had respect and
admiration for that person who can easily be called inspiration for so many
people around the world. I can easily compare him to Helen Keller for she overcame
her disability and carved a niche for herself in a very unique way.
When God takes away
something from you, He replaces its loss by giving you something else in
abundance and that is exactly what we need to remember in life. This book is a
wonderful reminder of how we should fight the problems life sends us with a
smile so much so that even life is left with no other choice but to smile at
us.
The author has kept the
narrative very simple yet engaging making the reader enjoy his story and connect
with it very strongly. There are places where I cried with him, not for his
pain but for the helplessness I felt at that moment and that I believe is the
brilliance of a writer to write something so touching!
I would strongly
recommend this book to each one out there simply for the brilliance in the
topic it has been written on. It is a life changing book.
Foodie Verdict
This book for me is beyond comparison and yet if I have to then it will be these yummy cupcakes for it is beautiful beyond words!
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