http://blogs.4indianwoman.comQuick Blogcasthttp://blogs.4indianwoman.com/2010/03/14/in-short-stories--weeds-by-sudha-narasimhachar-bangalore-india.aspx#comment-2919780Thank you friends for those encouraging comments. I leave the end to the imagination of the reader because just as Mahima, I too am not interested in the verdict. Anything is acceptable, since she has achieved something that she wanted to achieve. Since I am not a legal expert, I really do not know how such a case will be dealt with. My intention was to express how a mother of a child who undergoes such a trauma must be feeling! In fact, whenever I travel by buses and see injustice being meted out to helpless women and children, my blood boils. I really get very upset with men behaving cheap in public. Aren't such men weeds in a beatiful society? I definitely do not advocate taking law into one's one hands. But I have only portrayed the state of a frustrated and helpless mind of a loving mother.<br /><br />Sudha NarasimhacharSudha Narasimhachar2010-03-17T18:04:27Zhttp://blogs.4indianwoman.com/2010/03/14/in-short-stories--weeds-by-sudha-narasimhachar-bangalore-india.aspx#comment-2919710A hard-hitting and emotional story.Irene2010-03-17T17:28:27Zhttp://blogs.4indianwoman.com/2010/03/14/in-social-issues--vanishing-vendors-by-dom-prakash-narayan-salem-india.aspx#comment-2919555your blog reminds me of bartan(untensils)sellers who would come to our place and my mother used to buy steel bartans by exchanging old disposable clothes.deepika2010-03-17T16:20:57Zhttp://blogs.4indianwoman.com/2010/03/14/in-shails-space--indulging-in-charity-is-it-a-noble-cause.aspx#comment-2919270Yes, it seems like a slip of the keyboard :) Lots of love... do write more poems...Sneha2010-03-17T14:35:12Zhttp://blogs.4indianwoman.com/2010/03/14/in-music-review-by-indrani--the-best-of-the-best--ustad-bade-ghulam-ali.aspx#comment-2919149Thanks for enlightening me Indrani. I know the songs you have mentioned but that was it. Now I know a bit more about the compositions.joy2010-03-17T13:42:04Zhttp://blogs.4indianwoman.com/2010/03/14/in-jessies-corner--different-measuring-scales-for-the-sexes.aspx#comment-2919127You've hit the proverbial nail on the head Jessie. I wonder if things will change...one can only hope.joy2010-03-17T13:32:36Zhttp://blogs.4indianwoman.com/2010/03/14/in-social-issues--vanishing-vendors-by-dom-prakash-narayan-salem-india.aspx#comment-2919105Shail,<br />wait for some more years, and you will have mobile (literally) vendors, selling mobile phones! :-)<br />Thanks.D.Om Prakash Narayan2010-03-17T13:22:39Zhttp://blogs.4indianwoman.com/2010/03/14/in-social-issues--vanishing-vendors-by-dom-prakash-narayan-salem-india.aspx#comment-2919102True, they are there, but diminishing in number. Thanks Irene, for reading and commenting.D.Om Prakash Narayan2010-03-17T13:21:33Zhttp://blogs.4indianwoman.com/2010/03/14/in-social-issues--vanishing-vendors-by-dom-prakash-narayan-salem-india.aspx#comment-2919098Thanks, Sneha. Nice to know that you have painted the flower pots - these days, no one really cares for mud pots - in salem, I have seen mud pot vendors crossing over to cement pots! :-(<br /><br />Regarding publishing my writings, thanks for the compliment....my job allows me very little time. I hope my wife, who is also a writer in this website, decides to publish her writings and mine together (like Colleen and Hugh Gantzer)someday! <br /><br />Thanks again.D.Om Prakash Narayan2010-03-17T13:19:04Zhttp://blogs.4indianwoman.com/2010/03/14/in-short-stories-in-parts--part-i-of-the-silver-coin-by-joy-clarkson-gurgaon-india.aspx#comment-2919087Nice to see u Irene..:)Thanks a ton.I'm glad you liked it.joy2010-03-17T13:11:44Z