Category: Marraige
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Will She Let Us Decide What She Does With Her Body?
Clothing Rules as Boundary Tests in Patriarchal Families “Will she let us decide what she does with her body?” Many clothing rules imposed upon women who marry into patriarchal families. This is rarely spoken out aloud, and the argument is often framed as modesty, respect, safety or family values. The…
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The Power Within Oneself (#100WordStory)
Emotional abuse had battered her spirits. Ages passed away in pain, seeking light, with no hope of restoration ever. “Train your mind to see the good in everything”, some advised. Clearly, that’d be a mistake, since then you’d leave the door open and tip the evil to rise. “Train yourself…
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A Promise Of Faith
(Forceful religious conversions, making a spouse give up their personal faith in inter-religious marriages, is one of the very poignant issues, prevalent across our society since ages, which is what inspired me to come up with this fiction.) It was 5 pm. As the rickshaw took through the traffic jammed…
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Imperfect Couple But A Perfect Love (A Valentines Day Post)
It was six in the morning. The cook had already left, finishing his daily routine of preparing breakfast and lunch. Adarsh got up and silently tiptoed into the kitchen, so as not to disturb Vartika. He switched on the coffee kettle, packed his own and their five-year-old daughter, Raavi’s lunch…
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A Cute Love Story (Winning Entry)
Affinity And Moods’s story featured as the third winning entry on Women’s web #100WordStory #ImageBasedFridayFlashFiction https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fwomensweb%2Fposts%2F2167389193281221&width=500
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Partnerships and Celebrations…
Just recently, someone close visiting us, casually happened to ask, if we had any plans to celebrate my hubby’s upcoming birthday, to which hubby was quick to respond that it’d just be like any normal day. We all seemed to unanimously agree. But on an afterthought, I found myself slightly…
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The Sandcastle (Short Story)
Seven year old Neel and Kathy played together on the beach, whenever they came along with their mothers. They loved building sandcastles. Kathy could never get hers right but Neel had become an expert in making them. He could however sense Kathy’s despair when she saw her model to be…
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Short story – The Acceptance
Amisha pondered over Rajat’s words ‘They are OK with it. In fact mom was suggesting that we put up curtains in the bedroom of our new home-to-be for better privacy.’ The words uttered though brief, held an air of aloof hauteur about them, she could not understand why. Instead of…
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