Kevon Felmine

Af­ter a 12-year-long ca­reer as a teacher at the Princes Town Se­nior Sec­ondary School, Nar­isha Kahn has de­cid­ed to share her knowl­edge of the Trin­bag­on­ian so­ci­ety. Last Wednes­day, Khan launched her first book, Karmic Jus­tice, at a book sign­ing at Nigel N Khan Book Store at Gulf City Mall, La Ro­main.

Khan was well sup­port­ed by her fam­i­ly and was pleased with the num­ber of for­mer stu­dents pa­tro­n­is­ing her fic­tion­al book.

Karmic Jus­tice takes it read­ers on an emo­tion­al trip as, they ex­plore fa­mil­iar is­sues that many Trin­bag­on­ian would have ex­pe­ri­enced in their life­time. Is­sue such as be­tray­al of trust and in­fi­deli­ty, and the prob­lems that arise from forced mar­riages by tra­di­tion and re­li­gion. Do­mes­tic vi­o­lence and child abuse, psy­cho­log­i­cal black­mail, male emas­cu­la­tion, al­co­holism, the trau­ma of fail­ure, and the rise of women in pro­fes­sion­al sta­tus are al­so fea­tured in the book.

The ex­cit­ed au­thor said that she was al­ways in­ter­est­ed in look­ing at the sen­si­tive and so­cial is­sues of T&T and would usu­al­ly share it with her stu­dents. "You know I would be shar­ing my knowl­edge and they would say, 'miss you should write a book you know'. So I de­cid­ed to take their ad­vice," Khan said. The Pe­nal born Gas­par­il­lo res­i­dent said that book on­ly took eight months to write, and re­vealed that she was al­ready work­ing on an­oth­er. She said Karmic Jus­tice was good read­ing for those who wished to ex­plore the many prob­lem face by the peo­ple of T&T.