SHE- Screw Silence!

By Reecha Agarwal Goyal

Have you heard the whispers? She woke up different today. She smiles like she is hiding a secret. She holds her head high, like she is wearing an invisible crown. The air around her is charged with confidence, strength, and courage. Have you heard the whispers? She woke up different today. Yet it feels she has been like this always. Maybe it' s the story that has changed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fingerprint Publishing
• Release date: Oct 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9789358564709

Book preview

"What are the seven deadly sins,

grandma?"

Submissiveness, self-doubt, self-abasement,

diffidence, dependence, ignorance,

and silence.

A child at heart at 16.

A mature woman at 31.

At 43, she realised she could be both together.

Growing old was not her thing!

Growing livelier was.

A compound of ten buildings stood tall

and sprawling before her.

The Lego blocks had limitations, her vision did not.

The proud architect smiled.

Enough of complying with everyone

else’s wishes.

She was now a DJ by night.

She would now make people dance to her tunes.

She lit the funeral pyre of her dad.

How could she let him down in his last hour?

He, who had always told her there was nothing she could not do that a son could.

Ice cream? she asked, puzzled.

"You were smiling a little too