Sheena alive and out there: Indrani Mukerjea in memoir

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

Indrani Mukerjea, who spent more than six years in jail on charges of murdering her daughter Sheena Bora, has come with a bare-all memoir in which she claims that the person she is accused of killing is «alive and out there». The Supreme Court had granted Mukerjea bail on May 18 last year, saying her time in prison was too long a term and the trial in the case won't be completed anytime soon. She has throughout denied the murder charge.

In her book «Unbroken: The Untold Story», Mukerjea «strips away the layers of sensationalism that surrounded me and reveal the raw truth of my experiences». Through the book, she says she wants to «reach out to anyone who has faced adversity and believed they were beyond repair». Mukerjea says though she and Sheena looked really similar and even liked similar food, they didn't have a conventional parent-child relationship.

«I discovered what Sheena was like only when she was 15 years of age. Right from the start, we bonded like friends. Sheena considered my mother as her parent because she grew up with my parents; she saw me more as a sibling,» Mukerjea writes in the book, published by HarperCollins India.

She goes on to say that both she and Sheena invested in creating a bond. «Over the years, our bond intensified. We shared everything — from food to jewellery to clothes...,» the book says.

But that was unfortunately short-lived, claims Mukerjea. «I didn't know the challenges of being a parent to a 21-year-old. The minute I stopped playing the cool parent and became the strict one, things changed,» she writes.

Mukerjea claims she never expressed her rage to Sheena. «She was my kid who could do no wrong. I treated her like an adult and respected her decisions.