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Leela Sharma's Book 'I Fought War, I Won Cancer' Chronicles Life's Battles

english.ratopati.com · Sat Nov 07 06:19:19 UTC 2026

Leela Sharma 'Asmita', who fought a decade-long people's war with a gun, also had to fight cancer. In the war, collective dreams were bigger than the fear of death. In cancer, the face of her three-year-old son taught her to live. Her book 'I Fought War, I Won Cancer' is not just a story of war and disease, but a document of a courageous woman who does not give up on life.

How many wars can a person fight in a lifetime? Does life become peaceful after one war ends? Does the war within the mind also end after the sound of guns stops? What must have gone through the mind of a Leela, who had seen death before her eyes, when she felt the threat of death again in her own body?

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