Daily Ruminations of a Dreamer
To all the single women who are waiting to find their one love, don’t lose hope, He, or she is out there….Till then love yourself most, To all the newly married ones, still basking in the glow of love, Enjoy the honeymoon period to the hilt, real life and responsibilities may engulf sometimes, To all [...]
Suhana could hear her heart thumping in her chest… she was almost nauseous with anxiety. Her thoughts drifted back to memories from fifteen years back…. that sideways glance from her, that shy smile, that laughter which removed all gloom in any room... How she had approached Suhana on the last day of college... Hesitatingly confessing [...]
Ohhhhhh…!! Gasped the onlookers, looking at the newborn… The depressed face of the husband, the sideward glances from the friends, the tch-tch sounds from the in-laws, the sympathetic looks from the nurses, and a pat on the shoulder with a clenched jaw from the doctor said it all. But the love seeped in a mother’s [...]
‘What a bitch!’ thought the mum of three, adjusting her crumpled dupatta haphazardly, trying despairingly to discipline her children, as she gave her slim, well-groomed neighbour entering the lift, a head-to-toe sideways glance, and flashed her a plastic smile. ‘She must think I look so frumpy’, she sighed... ‘What a bitch!’ thought the smart-looking woman, [...]
‘Congratulations, Sir! As requested by your wife, your entire amount of the joint account has been transferred to Prevention of Women’s Domestic Abuse Charity. I must say, that is an extremely generous act on your part. It is rare to find people like you these days’ said the bank manager as he disconnected the call. [...]
IPS Officer Nair signed the orders for probe into Union Minister of Agriculture, a man most people would dare not speak against, much less investigate. He was known to be powerful and perilous. ‘This could potentially be your last probe,’ warned the colleagues. ‘Why do you have to do these things?’ pleaded the family members. [...]
‘She is pregnant again??!! Ask her to abort it! Must be a girl again!’ scowled Rani’s mother-in-law. Already a mother of 2 girls, Rani shuddered inside, thinking about the fate of her unborn. The ultrasound scan in evening at a dark illegal clinic revealed twins- a girl, and a boy…both intertwined by the umbilical cord, [...]
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