Vama ka indradhanush

Filled with various emotions and feelings in the moments of happiness and sorrow, romance, love and joy, pain and distress, a woman's life has several dimensions much like the colours of a rainbow in the limitless sky.

Vama means woman. Vama Ka Indradhanush (literally meaning A Woman's Rainbow) is a compilation of twenty-one stories, mirroring various aspects as experienced in the real lives of women in the Indian society belonging to different ages and classes of social strata.

From the 'Rani Sahiba' (Princess) of an erstwhile princely state in the pre-independence India, as described in the story 'Holi', to the heroine of the story, Kanta, who, due to the miserable financial condition of the family, is cursed to earn a sustainable livelihood by living miles away from her family.

From the heroines of the stories, Peela Sindoor (literally meaning Yellow Vermilion) and Tabla (a kind of repercussion drum in India), depicting the plight of women in a patriarchal society, bound by tradition and stereotypes sixty to seventy years ago, to the heroines of 'Timtimate Taare' (literally meaning Flickering Stars) and 'Kavya' who represent the changing mindset of the modern Indian woman.

The stories of this collection, representing many hues and colours of a woman's life prevailing at different times in the Indian social milieu, will surely touch and stir the hearts of sensitive readers and compel them to think about their upliftment in the real sense.