Word: shamings
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...Farewell to a Decent Man" [Jan. 15]: Shame on TIME for insufficiently acknowledging the contributions of Gerald Ford, perhaps one of the most important American Presidents of the 20th century--certainly one of the most decent. Ford deserved to be on TIME's cover. He may not have been flashy or tested well with TV audiences, but he was a President with courage, wisdom, honesty, integrity and compassion--in other words, a leader in whom we could place our trust. What other person could have done the hard but necessary work of leading the country out of, as President Ford...
...What saves Shame from becoming another BBC documentary on the horrors of forced marriage (the network has interviewed Sanghera on that topic) is the author's own story, recounted deftly and without apology. Like all good heroes, she is deeply flawed and strongly conflicted. "By day I fought for the rights of Asian women," she writes, "and by night I craved acceptance from the very community I rejected...
...Sanghera is certainly no angel. Though underage, she flees Derby with her older, lower-caste boyfriend Jassey, to her family's shame. The young couple settles in nearby Leeds, where Jassey, a trained engineer, sells cheap watches in a market stall to support them. Sanghera rewards his good-humored steadiness with an adulterous affair and a divorce. Then she ditches her lover, finds another husband and leaves him as well, temporarily losing custody of a child...
...Today, the group maintains homes for abused Asian women in Derby and nearby cities, and Sanghera lectures widely on the problem. But she has paid a price for her fame. "People here regard me as a woman with no shame, hence the book's title," says Sanghera, in a strong Midlands accent, from her home in Derby. "I get intimidating phone calls, saying my kids will be hurt, my legs chopped off if I don't return their daughter. I've had human feces smeared on my window and signs painted on my car." Her brother was beaten...
...becoming law without government support. Sanghera intends to expand Karma Nirvana, eventually to Scotland and Wales, and dreams of a "national network of friendship for women like me, women who are alone. We will send them birthday cards." As Sanghera has learned from the tumultuous life described in Shame, there is more than one kind of family...