You know that feeling when an intense, three-season thriller ends on a cliffhanger? It is quite an enraging feeling. Now, stretch that feeling out. Not for minutes, but for months.

Shreya’s mother had left when she was six months old; her father was a chronic alcoholic. Between two unreliable parents, changing schools, shifting homes and hostels, the only anchor she

To Attend or Not To Attend At the age of 12 Jiya* was forced to attend to her first customer.  It was her mother who had sold her to the

The wall comes crashing down.  A loud thud opens my eyes. It takes a while to register his face. He calls my name with an expectant voice – “Me! Your

I would gaze up at the leaves. They helped me hide from the sun. My mother had recently delivered two more boys and they cried all day. Just like her.