Set of 2 Uttermost Aruna Candle Holders

• Set of 2.
• Resin and ceramic construction.
• Firebrick red with black details.
• Includes two ivory candles.
• Small: 18" high and 5" wide.

Aruna's Journeys -- Novel for ages 8-12. Winner, 1998 Skipping Stones Award for Multicultural Books. One of only a few available novels dealing with Indian-American children. "Should be in every school and library." - Multicultural Review. "Puts many Indian traditions into a twentieth-century perspective, something rarely seen in children's literature today." - Booklist.A profoundly affecting memoir by a woman who is a survivor of the "honor/shame" culturally-related system of abuse.

Aruna Papp has been committed for the past twenty-eight years to helping other South Asian women escape from a lifetime of oppression. Born in Northern India to a Seventh-Day Adventist family, she attended elementary school thank! s to her grandmother, who worked in the house of a white colonial family. Abused by her father, Aruna was forced into an arranged marriage and eventually immigrated to Canada, where the abuse, now at the hands of her husband, continued without respite. Years later, she walked away from the marriage, at great cultural cost. Behind her remarkable story lies the issue of culturally sanctioned honor crimes and the way that westerners, and the Western media, will willfully turn a blind eye to culture-based iniquities. Compelling, moving, sometimes shocking, Unworthy Creature is ultimately the hopeful and redemptive story of one courageous woman's struggle to survive.


From the Hardcover edition.A profoundly affecting memoir by a woman who is a survivor of the "honor/shame" culturally-related system of abuse.

Aruna Papp has been committed for the past twenty-eight years to helping other South Asian women escape from a lifetime of oppressio! n. Born in Northern India to a Seventh-Day Adventist family, s! he atten ded elementary school thanks to her grandmother, who worked in the house of a white colonial family. Abused by her father, Aruna was forced into an arranged marriage and eventually immigrated to Canada, where the abuse, now at the hands of her husband, continued without respite. Years later, she walked away from the marriage, at great cultural cost. Behind her remarkable story lies the issue of culturally sanctioned honor crimes and the way that westerners, and the Western media, will willfully turn a blind eye to culture-based iniquities. Compelling, moving, sometimes shocking, Unworthy Creature is ultimately the hopeful and redemptive story of one courageous woman's struggle to survive.


From the Hardcover edition.Starring: GOVINDA, RAMBHA, AROONA IRANI, PREM CHOPRA, JOHNY LEVER

Synopsis: Our story begins with a wealthy household dominated by Aruna Irani, her husband, three sons, two of whom are married and both are fathers to girls! . This causes Aruna much worry as to who will continue the family lineage and out of resentment sends both her daughters-in-law back to their parents' home. Her last hope, her son Govinda, is persuaded into marrying Rambha, and has the unwanted burden of bearing a son.Coincidentally Govinda and his friend Johny Lever, are both expectant fathers around the same time, and their respective wives are admitted into the same maternity ward. Meanwhile Aruna who suffers a heart attack, is also admitted to the same hospital. Johny is the first one to become proud father of a baby boy, whom he rushes over to Govinda, on the other hand Rambha delivers a baby girl. While Govinda is playing with Johny's son, Prem enters and assumes the boy to be that of Govinda, and rushes to his wife announcing the good news. Aruna is overjoyed, and is soon on the road of recovery.Here is the dilemma: Govinda too has fathered a girl, just as his brothers, but cannot disclose the truth to his family. Jo! hny, father of the boy cannot claim his own son in order to av! oid Arun a's wrath, and the fear of her health being in danger again. How much longer before the truth is out, forms the crux of this heart warming film.

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This is a brand new stainless steel mug imprinted using sublimation technology. It is a 14 oz mug and has (ARUNA) printed on itThese two candle holders will add a splash of color and style to your decor. Firebrick red glazed, carved ceramic sits atop black crackled bases, holding two included distressed ivory candles. A warm home accent from Uttermost.