The Last Straw- Fiction

The Last Straw- Fiction

I was forty when I decided to end my marriage. Needless to say, everyone was shocked and wondered at my audacity in ending a twenty-plus-year-old marriage. But the fact was my marriage was a sham, a farce right from the beginning. I started disliking my husband a few...
The Liberated Woman- A Short Fiction

The Liberated Woman- A Short Fiction

Smita was in a tizzy. The maid, as usual, had passed on the information that she wouldn’t be in today. Really! Shanti had a penchant for choosing the most awkward of days. She wished she could do without her, but she sighed knowing that it was only wishful...
The Glass Balls in our Lives

The Glass Balls in our Lives

  I learnt a powerful lesson in life recently from a book. The protagonist talks about the five balls we juggle in our lives: work, family, friends, health and integrity. We keep most of them in the air, trying our best not to drop any. Work is the only ball that...