Category Archives: Tales for Women

Janvi was a good reader and her favourite writer was Maniya Sharma. She read all her books and was thorough with it. She had never seen her mother and her father was full time busy. She spends most of her time reading and never tried to know about her mother.    One day while searchingContinue reading “Maa (Vipitha Devi)”

  “It has been 15 years. Whenever I ask you about dad, you either ignored me or just said he lives out of the country. Why the hack I had never received a call, letter or even a single message from him. Just a gift once in a year that too on my birthday taggingContinue reading “MY father : Ms. Arnali Deshmukh (Meenakshi)”

The virus roamed about outside, waiting to sink its claws into anyone foolish enough to walk around without adequate protection. It was invisible but had the strength to stay alive for over forty-eight hours. Maya’s maid was waxing eloquent over the graphic descriptions floating around as freely as the virus itself. “Madamji, the virus isContinue reading “Maya’s Metamorphosis (Deepti Menon)”

Neerja Verma is a social worker and Social Studies teacher in a government school in the city of Shitalpur. She dons her peach coloured sari with a light red border. Applying kohl in her eyes, she places a medium-sized red-coloured bindi at the forehead’s centre. Few minutes later, Beena, her 14-year old daughter, calls outContinue reading “Kamli (Devika Das)”

Achintha who had a curly hair and some arrogant look on his face was not an educated person. By looking at his face, anyone could judge what kind of a person Achintha was. Achintha was a violent, hot- headed man who got angry very quickly. Hailing from a poor family, Achintha was 35 years old.Continue reading “An Unsuccessful Marriage (D.M Navoda Dissanayake)”

As she bid goodbye to the guests, Rani kept thinking of the words which Suyaash, her friend, told her at the party – “Girls have no problem, they can easily quit their job and sit at home for 6 months till they find a new job. They have “Helpers” like us to depend upon!!” OfContinue reading “Happily Single (Priyanka Mohanty)”

I was always amused at the way my dad did everything for our family, his skills of managing finance was the most I admired. Like any corporate employee he was stressed at work, but that made no difference. He never made compromises when it came to checking our studies and giving us most important advises. He was visiblyContinue reading “How I Became My Mom’s Fan (Amal Farhan)”