The Night Queen by Birister Sharma

The Night Queen: She starts hunting when her preys are in deep slumber...... by Birister Sharma
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

The author, a graduate in Journalism and Mass Communication is also a freelance writer.





Storyline:

A happy peasant family of two adults and 5 children, in a remote village of India, who lived life to its fullest. As the children grew, it became increasingly difficult to maintain the ends meet. Owing to severe pressure from the banks and local money lenders, the breadwinner father commits suicide. This event changes the scenario of this happy family. The uncle of the children, Raghu sees an opportunity here to sell off the beautiful eldest and youngest daughters to whorehouses in New Delhi for a huge ransom. This story is narrated by the youngest, named Rani, later renamed as Dolly, as to how she is raped by a client when she first loses her virginity. Later she becomes the Night Queen of sex and power in the dirty world of prostitution. She gains the contacts of best males in the country and abroad for almost ten years only to fall in love with a rich love starved business tycoon, owning a telecom company. Just at the time she was about to surrender to his love, she comes across the brutal murder of her elder sister, Radhima, who was also sold by Raghu, for which she turns violent and absolutely aggressive to kill all those responsible for her and her sister’s fates, including her uncle Raghu. Finally, she discovers that she is infected with AIDS and kills herself under complete satisfaction and peace for she could efface at least some of the agents and touts that are in the business of forcing young innocent girls into the dirty business of prostitution.

Pros: A story right from the heart of a young girl forced into prostitution due to her family’s poverty and helplessness. The reader feels the pain and emotions of a young girl when she is thoroughly raped day and night by strangers and how her mind gets tuned to conquer the dirty sex world owing to her inability to retaliate or escape from the clutches of the dangerous owners of whorehouses. Finally, the author wanted to prove that those who thrive in the crime world would definitely face a similar end and portrayed Dolly’s sudden end in her mid-life. Right ending given to the one who chose the wrong path to gain name and fame within short period.

Cons: The author seems not to have taken much importance to literary grammar, as the narration seems to be like the one from an elementary school. Not very effective when it comes to the story, as it is not very new to a country like India, which is infected with huge population living in utmost poverty and debt, even today, in most of its rural landscape. No mention about the rest of the family after Rani’s entry into whorehouse or what could have happened to them. Felt incomplete.

My rating is 2 out of 5


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