Sexually abused as a young girl in a society that rendered children without a voice, Jawahara Saidullah drifted through life, certain the trauma she’d suffered as a child meant she wasn’t worthy to take part in living. Through her identification of the stories of India’s warrior queens, Jawahara eventually found the strength to face her trauma.
Like these historical women who saved their thrones, lineage, and countries in male-dominated societies that considered them too weak to rule, Jawahara’s lifelong determination to succeed became the foundation of strength she fought to pass along to her adopted daughter.
