HER PLACE
- September 10, 2020
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- admin_chubbylittlegirl
She would cover her head with a stole in the presence of elders as a mark of respect. Was it to keep her in place?
She would stop speaking if an elder male cleared his throat indicating her to stop. Did she hear him say, “she should know her place?”.
She stopped studying, she stopped working, she...
PATTERNS ON THE SAND
- September 09, 2020
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- admin_chubbylittlegirl
She looked at the children playing at a distance. She drew a heart on the wet sand and added A+R on it. A sudden large wave erased it
She drew a heart again but changed the initials to P+R with trembling hands. The wave erased the design again.
She became bolder, drew a bigger heart and gave...
WELCOME
- August 22, 2020
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- admin_chubbylittlegirl
She came back to her parents’ home with bag and baggage after ten years of her marriage.
Everyone asked her, “Why?”
No one said, “You are welcome”.
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MY AMMA’S SAREE
- August 02, 2020
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- admin_chubbylittlegirl
Amma had fancied a checked Kanjeevaram saree with double coloured border since long. She saved money from household expenses and purchased the saree after considerable effort. She happily wore it on her birthday and showed it to papa forgetting his abusive ways.
Irked by her independent thinking, papa punished her hard and amma succumbed to the...
THE SPACE IN BETWEEN
- July 30, 2020
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- admin_chubbylittlegirl
From rustling up mouth watering dishes in the kitchen to entertaining the guests in the living room, from drying clothes and gardening in the small balcony to taking care of elders in the bedroom, from teaching the kids in the study room to sharing tea with her spouse on the easy chairs , she kept...
COMPATIBILITY
- July 21, 2020
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- admin_chubbylittlegirl
He wasn’t what she had expected him to be and she couldn’t become what he wanted her to be.
The world said that they both lacked compatibility.
Only they both knew that they lacked love for each other.
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LIFE ….. AFTERLIFE
- July 01, 2020
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- admin_chubbylittlegirl
The lifeless body was lying on the floor. Blood flowing from the slit wrist. The loved ones were shocked and wailing.
The soul was shocked too to see the body. How could the body betray its own soul? Though the body had freed itself from the miseries of the world , yet it had caged its...
LOCKDOWN
- April 08, 2020
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- admin_chubbylittlegirl
The family members based in different cities downloaded a new app to video chat with each other during lock down.
When all of them came online, they enjoyed the chats and agreed that lock down certainly brought them together again.
“Really?”. The eccentric disagreed. “I was always here. Never busy for you”.
Years earlier the family had downloaded...
TUSSLE
- March 21, 2020
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- admin_chubbylittlegirl
It was a tussle between them. Him and her. None ready to budge. None ready to understand. When did it start , none had a clue.
Years earlier, there was a similar tussle. She was in his shoes then. With time, the sides changed. From being misunderstood to not understanding, she had come a long way....
CREAM
- December 10, 2019
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- admin_chubbylittlegirl
She finally bought the luxurious , aromatic cream that she had long fancied. But when she applied it, it no longer had the same charm.
And then, she saw a twinkle in the eyes of her maid’s daughter. She remembered she too had a similar twinkle years back when she saw her mom’s landlady applying the...
