I had planned this part of the site for her professional writings - perhaps I will still put them here - but as I delved through her diaries, I also realised that there was another set of "stories" - perhaps more significant than her professional articles - which she had written. These "stories" were some of her autobiographical sketches which she had penned down at the age of 17 or so. The fact that they described some of the most significant people and experiences in her life - then, and also later - demanded their place here.
Geeta had her own reasons for distancing herself from these, and concealing them as stories. She had not given any titles to these writings; they are given by me - and represent the meaning I see of these episodes in her life...
At the end of the day, whether entries in her diaries, or stories, it is only written words that are left...
- The First Summer
- Her first adult attachment - and its renunciation... and her emergence out of it, a stronger and deeper person. It was also a story of a false option - one of those parental injunctions which one carries over lifetime - between relationship and career... But then, in her social context, in those days in early '70s, it was a real either/or choice for a girl. As I keyed-in this "story", I kept wondering, what would her life have been, if she had not "lied" at the end...
- My Second Self
- This is less of a story, and more of a character sketch and a narration of a relationship. But it was a very significant part of Geeta's growing up... KP was a challenge to Geeta's 16 year old world. She represented everything which contradicted Geeta's template of socio-psychological reality. And yet, at some level, the two were very similar. In relating to KP, Geeta also absorbed - or discovered - within herself a new way of being and facing life...
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