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Her mother-in-law looked at her with a crooked smile and asked not her, but her three-day-old husband, “When’s she changing her surname?”
It was the third day after her marriage. Just after breakfast, she and her mother-in-law found themselves alone with each other. Her mother-in-law kept staring at her.
There was a kind of anger which said, “My son belonged to me, I won’t let him have you so easily.”
She shivered.
At that very moment, her husband of three days and her friend of eighteen months appeared. He knew how independent she was and had her own set of thoughts. He had been mesmerized by those thoughts she had said. She was reassured in his presence.
Suddenly, her mother-in-law looked at her with a crooked smile and asked not her, but her three-day-old husband, “When’s she changing her surname?”
He replied without asking, “She will do it once we return to our workplace.”
She wasn’t asked. Not only that, but she had no choice. Likewise, she went back and just followed what had been uttered to please someone whom she knew would never be pleased with whatever she did.
One day, she asked him, “Why didn’t you ask me if I wished to change my second name?”
He replied, “I thought that you wouldn’t wish to change it since you belong to a higher caste!”
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Neena was the sole caregiver of Amma and though one would think that Amma was dependent on her, Neena felt otherwise.
Neena inhaled the aroma that emanated from the pan and took a deep breath. The aroma of cumin interspersed with butter transported her back to the modest kitchen in her native village. She could picture her father standing in the kitchen wearing his white crisp kurta as he made delectable concoctions for his only daughter.
Neena grew up in a home where both her parents worked together in tandem to keep the house up and running. She had a blissful childhood in her modest two-room house. The house was small but every nook and cranny gave her memories of a lifetime. Neena’s young heart imagined that her life would follow the same cheerful course. But how wrong she was!
When she was sixteen, the catastrophic clutches of destiny snatched away her parents. They passed away in a road accident and Neena was devastated. Relatives thronged her now gloomy house and soon it was decided that she should be married off.
Being a writer, Nivedita Louis recognises the struggles of a first-time woman writer and helps many articulate their voice with development, content edits as a publisher.
“I usually write during night”, says author Nivedita Louis during our conversation. Chuckling she continues,” It’s easier then to focus solely on writing. Nivedita Louis is a writer, with varied interests and one of the founders of Her Stories, a feminist publishing house, based in Chennai.
In a candid conversation she shared her journey from small-town Tamil Nadu to becoming a history buff, an award-winning author and now a publisher.
Nivedita was born and raised in a small town in Tamil Nadu. It was for schooling that she first arrived in Chennai. Then known as Madras, she recalls being awed by the city. Her love-story with the city, its people and thus began which continues till date. She credits her perseverance and passion to make a difference to her days as a vocational student among the elite sections of Madras.
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