Finding no other way, she escapes one day in disguise, and later leaves the Congregation. She also feels that is a conspiracy brewing against her to declare her insane and confine her to an asylum. Thus, Jesme finds herself at loggerheads with the powers-that-be when she protests against some of these practices. ![]() ![]() There were class-distinctions between nuns whereby the less-educated sisters coming from less-privileged backgrounds and known as cheduthies have to do the menial jobs something called ‘special love’ between sisters which might just be a bond of affection between the nuns but can also be a physical relationship the favouratism shown to the priests vis-a-vis the nuns corruption by way of donations for college seats to sisters secretly hoarding money even after taking the Vow of Poverty and sexual exploitation. And there are many things over there that Sister Jesme who had joined the congregation as a young, naive girl, finds shocking. ![]() Her autobiography first published in her mother-tongue Malayalam caused a furore as she exposed many unsavoury details about life in a convent.
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