Festivals through Tales

By Rani Jhala

Four short stories that are woven around Festivals and Traditions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Darcee Tana
• Release date: Jun 5, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458025661

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FESTIVALS THROUGH TALES

Copyright © 2011 by Rani Jhala.

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Special thanks to Indian Link for their permission to reprint my short stories. This is a work of fiction

Index

My Row of Lamps

Valentine strikes in India

White is for Purity

Rakhi – The bond of protection.

MY ROW OF LAMPS

Deepika had just put down the phone. It had been her mother on the line, inviting her and her husband to spend Diwali with the family. Her brothers and sister-in-laws were all coming down this year to celebrate the festival. As Deepika was the only child living in India, they had contacted her last, first ensuring that all the other children had agreed to come. Her parents had dearly wanted them to join too and. Deepika had agreed. However, as she put the receiver down, she broke out in a sweat. What was she going to do? It wasn’t ‘Diwali’ that she had wanted to talk to her parents about; it was the breakup with her husband that needed to be conveyed. She had delayed it as much as possible. Now this get-together was going to make things very difficult.

Deepika’s marriage to Pradeep was