A documentation of the author's reactions to the disclosure by his wife, Vidhi, that she suffered a childhood in India of almost incessant abuse, and that her family covered up the crimes to save "social face". Interwoven with chronological accounts of Vidhi's experiences and her later recovery, the narrative tracks the search by Vidhi and the author for justice and accountability, the hostility they encountered, and the support they received from unexpected sources. The text also contains meditations on the nature of evil, ...
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A documentation of the author's reactions to the disclosure by his wife, Vidhi, that she suffered a childhood in India of almost incessant abuse, and that her family covered up the crimes to save "social face". Interwoven with chronological accounts of Vidhi's experiences and her later recovery, the narrative tracks the search by Vidhi and the author for justice and accountability, the hostility they encountered, and the support they received from unexpected sources. The text also contains meditations on the nature of evil, the challenges of social reform, in India and around the world, and the consoling power of music when words fail to articulate the depths of depravity. Vidhi's story is not hers alone. It is a story central to the human condition: countless silenced victims around the world inhabit a shadowy realm of lies and hidden crimes. Truth Is Indestructible suggests that a society can be secure only if it protects its children and demonstrates unequivocally that this protection is inseparable from the rule of law. And it offers reflections on the re-enchantment of a polluted world. ... Stuart Nagero was born in the United Kingdom. He earned a doctorate from a British university and has worked in the United Nations system for more than two decades.
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The names have been changed to protect the innocent â�" and the guilty â�" in this non-fiction memoir by Stuart Nagero. As a small child in India, Nageroâ��s wife, Vidhi, suffered seven years of brutal physical, sexual and mental abuse at the hands of her adult cousin, Varun. As Nagero makes explicit in the title, Truth is Indestructible is a husbandâ��s reaction to learning of this part of his wifeâ��s history.
This short book of only 52 pages focuses almost exclusively on the authorââ?¬â?¢s reaction to learning of his wifeââ?¬â?¢s trauma and his philosophical musings about the nature of evil and social reform. He tells Vidhiââ?¬â?¢s story in outline only. There are few gory details of exactly what Varun did to her, apart from a couple of examples of his depravity. Instead, we are told that when her family fell into poverty, Vidhi and her mother were placed by her absentee father with extended family. In this family, Vidhi became the ââ?¬Å"sexual targetââ?¬Â? and ââ?¬Å"punching bagââ?¬Â? for a violent, psychopathic man seventeen years her senior.
When at last Vidhi confesses her history, she and Nagero seek justice, but there is no justice to be had. The police are not interested in such an old crime, and the family covers up and denies everything to save social face.
In a bid for a kind of healing, Nagero seeks to give a voice to the millions of other silent victims. He holds up Varun as just one example of an evil that infests the world, taking the specific instance of Vidhiââ?¬â?¢s experience and extrapolating that to comment on the human condition and society as a whole in which ââ?¬Å"evil individuals take advantage of the power and social taboos to protect them.ââ?¬Â?
Nagero is knowledgeable and articulate; through his novel, he provides a voice for his wife and other abuse victims. This memoir is a good read for those that want to know they are not alone, and that there is hope for the future.
