From the story- Call of the Heart Feeling like an intruder she opened Volume I and realized that Vaidehi did not write the same every day. As she scanned the same, she realized that the writing was a chronicle of the happening as if she wanted to pen her thoughts to...
While love is an emotion that is universally experienced, it is colored and nuanced by cultural context and setting. Inspired by the Modern Love column in the New York Times, this collection explores love as offered, received, and felt in the present time and within...
What if shedding weight was as easy as adding them? A story of a woman watching the tree shed its leaves and flowers and wishes that she too had the ability to do the same to all her added girth...and voilà, the wood fairy has heard her. She loses weight and along...
It was in the year 1983 when my very first story was published in the then women’s magazine in India. Short of taking out a billboard, I tried to let everyone know that I wrote. I left the magazine at strategic places and walked a couple of inches above the ground. An...
Many consider me to be a mere brick, mortar and lifeless. I am not......... I stand tall and proud for I too like most humans want to be heard, talked to, spoken about and admired. I have been through sun and shine, through hail and storm, through rain and calm,...
I remember the first time you made me go down on you. It was on the eve of Diwali and I was just thirteen. I was busy gawking at the room – which was big enough to fit my entire home in – and felt you move as fast as the mice do in our house when we unroll the bed and...
She too had to take some responsibility for her own happiness and it was better late than never. Gone were the days when women had to be taken care of by the men in her life. She realized that she had to rise above the patriarchal shackles that had made her fearful...
"Life is happening while you are busy making plans," said John Lennon. However, I believe, "Stories are happening as you are living your life!" That's my theme for this collection. A smile or a chance encounter can make you view life differently. It's not just a 6-...