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Mumbai, Sep 14 -- Book: "Homemakers Without the Men: Assam's Widows of Violence"; Author: Wasbir Hussain; Price: Rs.195; Pages: 122; Publisher: Indialog Publications.
This book is about 12 courageous women - who lost their husbands or kin during the decades-long insurgency in Assam - but have not given up on life.
The author, Wasbir Hussain, has been writing on insurgency and ethnic strife in Assam and other northeastern states for more than two decades and has short-listed women survivors from across the state for his work.
These women belong to a wide spectrum of society - wives of schoolteachers, student and political leaders, police officers, corporate employees, small businessmen and even daily wage earners or close relatives of militant bosses.
A large number of rebels belonging to the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and others have been killed by security forces. Similarly, rebels have killed many security personnel and ordinary civilians, besides hundreds of others in ethnic conflicts...