Waiting – A Collection Of Stories Gandhi Nighat

Praise for: “a clear-eyed view of life’s innate contradictions” — mita Ghose the Hindu “Allahabad may just have found her Chekov” — Irwin Allan Sealy “touches of poetry” — Anjana Basu outlook description: in this new collection by well- known author nighat Gandhi the private worlds of women open themselves up to the reader. Inside their homes are women trapped in a state of continuous limbo waiting for change; young girls struggling for the ‘purity’ that religion demands of them; new mothers who wonder at the absence of desire. Outside the seasons change trees shed their leaves the sky becomes overcast sounds float in to them and they wonder about the meaning of life. Each of the stories bring questions for the reader their nuanced telling and their unsparing truthfulness leave readers with a sense of discomfort as they confront their own demons. Love longing loss aging survival hope and self-invention—in other words life— are what these stories are about.