I wanted to read this book for a long time now. I had seen few reviews of this book in the newspapers and websites. Apart from that, the title and the theme of the book was what made me curious about this book. " The Daughters of Madurai " focuses on a mother's love towards her children and the struggle she had to put up to protect her daughters from the evil clutches of female infanticide. We might have read about female infanticide in various reports, books and news articles, and have always detested the sinful, inhumane practice of killing innocent lives. But those facts and figures could have never brought about the depth, hurt, pain and void it could bring for the family, the society and the mother. This book puts us in that place and makes us feel what every characters feel. In this book, the reader is the unborn female child, the reader is the new born baby, the reader is the dancing toddler, the reader is the underprivi...