Priyamvada Mehra

Priyamvada Mehra, author of The Cost of a Promised Afterlife, recounts growing up in a cult-like religious environment and finding a path to healing. She describes how total control, fear and censorship erased autonomy. She explains why capable people fall for charismatic godmen and how family bonds were redirected to the leader. She ends by sharing her present humanist outlook and reclaimed agency.