Short Story in English : Sunanda's Mother by law
SUNANDA'S MOTHER BY LAW Sunanda was having her tea sitting beside the rocking easy chair of her mamma. "Mamma" as she called her. Her biological mother left her, as everybody says when she was only four. She has seen her in old black-and-white pictures. Those pics were as if Sunanda had tried to go back in time. She was a true copy of her mother, but she became a true copy of her 'mamma' when it comes to her character. Today it's the third day that the chair beside her has been vacant. For the past 33 years, she must have rarely left her on her own. And after Saurabh left them, six yrs back she was always there with her like her shadow. The shadow made her figure prominent and outstanding. Sunanda, what she is today, is a new persona than what she used to be when she got married. The "woman" she called Mamma, helped her change the mould to make her the woman that she is now. And of course, her son Arnabh did the final polishing o...