Author Fiza Pathan And Her Latest Book

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Fiza Pathan About Her Latest Book:

"With the aid of the various techniques mentioned in this book, I hope to propagate the reading of Classics to everyone . . . every student, parent, and educator. 
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Through the use of these techniques, parents and educators will be able to introduce students to the rich world of classic literature without the negative feelings that often result when students are exposed to new, more difficult material."
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"The book also focuses on the importance of reading good literature, methods for encouraging students to do so, and the lifelong benefits children will reap from exposure to classic literature. It is my hope that this book will encourage everyone to make reading the classics a habit rather than a chore. We must do so, for the welfare of the modern generation and those to follow."

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About the Author:
Fiza Pathan is a teacher and the author of six books:

• S.O.S. Animals and Other Stories
• Treasury of Bizarre Christmas Stories, 
• Classics: Why we should encourage children to read them 
• Nirmala: The Mud Blossom
• So This Is Love - Collected Poems 
• Classics: How we can encourage children to read them 

She is also the recipient of the following awards:
1. CLASSICS: Why we should encourage children to read them
Silver Award Recipient, Mom's Choice Awards®  (Kindle version).
2014 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Best Book in the category of Education. (Paperback)
2. NIRMALA: The Mud Blossom
2014 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Best Book in the category of Novella.
3. So This Is Love - Collected Poems
2014 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Best Book in the category of Poetry.
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Fiza hosts a blog at www.insaneowl.com, where she shares her poetry, book reviews, and other issues close to her heart. Fiza invites you to connect with her via her website at www.fizapathan.com, on Twitter@FizaPathan, and on Goodreads.

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I was wondering how Fiza Pathan, a very well educated, and well-off writer, could tell the story of Nirmala the Mud Blossom.  After all I knew her for her great non-fiction work CLASSICS: Why We Should Encourage Children To Read Them.  And now a novel that takes place in the slums of Mumbai?
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Powerful, Passionate Fiction – and Why Fiza Pathan Wrote it…
Nirmala: The Mud Blossom graphically depicts the travails, discrimination, and abuse faced by female children in India from the cradle to the grave. Not an easy read I thought before starting the book. Despite it is a fictional story, it is a clear indictment of India and the inhuman way women and girls are still being treated today. However the story immediately drew my attention and I finished this gripping, fascinating novel in one reading session over the weekend.

About the Book:
Rejected and thrown into the dustbin when she was just two days old, the child was rescued and returned to her family by the NGOs. All because this little girl had the misfortune to be born as a female in Mumbai, India …
Nirmala is ill-treated by her mother, always subject to violence at her hands. She is allowed to continue her studies only because she can then coach her younger brothers, as the parents are illiterate. Each beating is accepted with forbearance, as she loves to go to school to get books to read from her library.

Nirmala is forced to stop her studies after the twelfth grade so her parents can save enough money to send the boys to college. She is then married off, but while her married life begins smoothly, it is only the beginning of her next phase of hell. After giving birth to her first child, Nirmala is subjected to harassment, beatings, and forced into doing things contrary to her beliefs and dreams. Her life is shattered.
What will happen to this little mud blossom? Will she fight back or succumb?  How can she rid herself of harassment and rise above the stigma she endures?”
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Fiza Pathan Explains in Her Own Words Why She Had to Write 
Nirmala: The Mud Blossom:

My latest novel which has just been released titled ‘Nirmala: The Mud Blossom’ was an accident.
I had no intention of writing this story, let alone framing and formatting it into a novella.  Yet when I pass the many filthy slums of Mumbai surrounding sky rise buildings and towers… I think to myself that maybe my character Nirmala and I both were accidents.  Nirmala, was tossed into a dustbin because she was a girl…I was sent home to my mother’s family because I was a girl.  Nirmala and I are two really different people and I can’t understand how I managed to write about her in the first place.
Do I empathize with Nirmala? Maybe…Do I sympathize with Nirmala? Maybe…but one thing is for sure: Nirmala got me thinking about reality, the reality that girls in India are not wanted…Nirmala and I both were not wanted.  Many people… read the rest in her blog InsaneOwl.com.

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Book of the Week: NIRMALA: The Mud Blossom

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Fiza Pathan's latest novel Nirmala just launched on Amazon.
This powerful story is about Nirmala the Mud Blossom, who had the misfortune to be born a female in Mumbai. Rejected and thrown into the dustbin when she was just two days old, the child was rescued and returned to her family by the NGOs.
Nirmala is ill-treated by her mother, always subject to violence at her hands. She is allowed to continue her studies only because she can then coach her younger brothers, as the parents are illiterate. Each beating is accepted with forbearance, as she loves to go to school to get books to read from her library. 

Nirmala is forced to stop her studies after the twelfth grade so her parents can save enough money to send the boys to college. She is then married off, but while her married life begins smoothly, it is only the beginning of her next phase of hell. After giving birth to her first child, Nirmala is subjected to harassment, beatings, and forced into doing things contrary to her beliefs and dreams. Her life is shattered. 

What will happen to this little mud blossom? Will she fight back or succumb? How can she rid herself of harassment and rise above the stigma she endures? 
Nirmala: The Mud Blossom graphically depicts the travails, discrimination, and abuse faced by female children in India from the cradle to the grave. 

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Biography
Fiza Pathan was born in Mumbai, India on 19th of March 1989 to Iqbal and Philomena Pathan. She finished her high school education from Bombay Scottish School, a reputed ICSE School in Mumbai. She then attended St Andrews College to pursue her BA degree in History and Sociology and graduated with a first class. She later graduated with a first class from the St Theresa's Institute of Education, Santa Cruz as a teacher her special subjects being History and English. She has taught History and English in Lilavatibai Podar Senior Secondary School (ICSE) to the Senior students.

Being literary minded from a young age Fiza participated in and won many competitions at College in essay writing and short stories. She was an active contributor to various Christian magazines like 'The Examiner' and 'Vision and Venture'. She has won many scholarships and awards in College in History and Literature as well as in Hindi, the national language of India.


Fiza has authored three fiction books

• S.O.S. Animals And Other Stories 
• Treasury Of Bizarre Christmas Stories 
• Flesh Of Flesh
• a non-fiction book CLASSICS: Why we should encourage children to read them 
• and a book of poetry So This Is Love. 

She has been 'adopted' by two stray cats who answer to the names of Lopez and Brownie. Fiza can be followed on her website http://www.fizapathan.com, on Twitter @FizaPathan, and on Goodreads.com. Fiza regularly blogs on www.insaneowl.com.  

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