ANGEL FLIGHT
Fiza Pathan
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39 books
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June 6, 2025
‘ANGEL FLIGHT’ was a suspenseful, enlightening, and gripping read if any. It has a happy and optimistic ending for the female protagonist, but it also brings out the many realities related to being an Airhostess or Air Stewardess. To be frank, some of the details mentioned in this short are so disturbing to read but are so true that it makes one’s gooseflesh rise automatically in shock.
‘Angel Flight’ is part of the Nandini series of Mangalam Shiva, a new upcoming sensational English short fiction writer from Mumbai, India, but hailing from Bengaluru. The story as mentioned before was gripping and in a way horrifying for those who don’t really know the ugly side of this profession. But there is a beauty to it as well which is portrayed very well by the author alternatively in the narration. The female protagonist comes off as brave, firm, loyal, a woman of her word, and a dedicated worker for the betterment of others. Her love for her family was exceptional and seeing her keeping her word to them was heartening to read, see, and ponder over.
My best friend Lata (Didi) once desired to be an Air Stewardess while we were in the undergraduate level in college. She had everything required for the profession – beauty, height, a charming personality, a great command over the English Language, a talent for learning other languages quickly, conversant in seven Indian regional languages apart from Hindi, loved to travel, loved working long hours, loved to serve others in the field of hospitality, and could carry herself brilliantly in any avatar as well. However, the reason why she ultimately gave up on her dream plan is related to the contents of this short titled ‘Angel Flight’ – grab your copy today and read about the gritty details of this profession.
Not that other professions are any better. In fact I should say that the teaching profession is going in the same direction, if not becoming worse! Somebody in my opinion will have to seriously address this perpetual nuisance a working woman has to deal with on a regular basis just to earn her living and feed her family and ambitions. It is getting from bad to worse and now because of the growing inflation, unemployment, lack of jobs and desperate situations of poverty, chronic illnesses, education loans, et al., from the home base it is making many young and middle-aged girls at times compromise or succumb to such chronic sexual predatory harassment.
Now it has reached another level of baselessness altogether in our country because of social networking sites galore where a male worker can easily stalk the movements of any girl or woman by the click of a button. Then because of the abject and deplorable backwardness of our society, it is easy to tarnish the name and living of a poor woman or girl, using a mix of torture ranging from community ostracism, rejection in society, verbal harassment or taunting, and character assassination comments on social media. This has got to stop or it will be like the case of one of my other post-graduate colleagues who wanted to stop her education merely because the college was far; she had to therefore travel by train and there were such male sexual predators on the train who used to molest her everyday going and coming back – therefore she wished to end her education midway for her sanity and peace of mind.
My Lata also had to forego her dream of being an Air Stewardess because she did not have the guts to go through such torture on a regular basis and at that somewhere in the sky! There has to be something better for working girls in our country and I think Mangalam Shiva’s short ‘Angel Flight’ is a social issue fiction short to gear our thinking towards solving this issue in all walks and avenues of life to make our working spaces safe for women and young girls. We deserve better than this, we too are human beings. It is time for some real equality. Read ‘Angel Flight’ to know that it is not only about Air Stewardess but every profession these days in this nook of town.
I especially implore the society and community members of third-world countries like mine to stop judging working girls and women and to stop their chronic tendencies for incurable character assassination online and offline. The life of the 21st century Indian working girl is not easy; in fact it is pathetic - live with that and give us a better deal. You can start by leaving us alone to do our thing. You can also start by trying not to automatically discredit the young girl or woman for the choices she makes in her life. Because the sad fact is that our technological prowess is growing arithmetically but our deplorable habit of sexually abusing each and every girl and woman at the workplace is growing at a geometric pace!
I have always found Mangalam Shiva sir to be an exceptionally talented and moving social issue fiction writer who tells it like it is and I implore all readers to check out his short stories which always remind me of the works of Chetan Bhagat, Nidhi Upadhyay, Sudeep Nagarkar, Nikita Singh with a mix of the suspense of Jeffrey Archer, James Patterson, David Baldacci and Michael Connelly. I saw a lot of Jeffrey Archer and even A.J. Cronin in this one titled ‘Angel Flight’ but with an Indian take and tone to it. I especially love the Indian tone to his fiction which makes his stories sound so authentic and realistically Indian. Totally something Chetan Bhagat would write but with more suspense and more captivating scenarios, but all based on reality.
I easily give Mangalam Shiva sir 5 stars yet again!
Author
39 books
309 followers
Friends
June 6, 2025
‘ANGEL FLIGHT’ was a suspenseful, enlightening, and gripping read if any. It has a happy and optimistic ending for the female protagonist, but it also brings out the many realities related to being an Airhostess or Air Stewardess. To be frank, some of the details mentioned in this short are so disturbing to read but are so true that it makes one’s gooseflesh rise automatically in shock.
‘Angel Flight’ is part of the Nandini series of Mangalam Shiva, a new upcoming sensational English short fiction writer from Mumbai, India, but hailing from Bengaluru. The story as mentioned before was gripping and in a way horrifying for those who don’t really know the ugly side of this profession. But there is a beauty to it as well which is portrayed very well by the author alternatively in the narration. The female protagonist comes off as brave, firm, loyal, a woman of her word, and a dedicated worker for the betterment of others. Her love for her family was exceptional and seeing her keeping her word to them was heartening to read, see, and ponder over.
My best friend Lata (Didi) once desired to be an Air Stewardess while we were in the undergraduate level in college. She had everything required for the profession – beauty, height, a charming personality, a great command over the English Language, a talent for learning other languages quickly, conversant in seven Indian regional languages apart from Hindi, loved to travel, loved working long hours, loved to serve others in the field of hospitality, and could carry herself brilliantly in any avatar as well. However, the reason why she ultimately gave up on her dream plan is related to the contents of this short titled ‘Angel Flight’ – grab your copy today and read about the gritty details of this profession.
Not that other professions are any better. In fact I should say that the teaching profession is going in the same direction, if not becoming worse! Somebody in my opinion will have to seriously address this perpetual nuisance a working woman has to deal with on a regular basis just to earn her living and feed her family and ambitions. It is getting from bad to worse and now because of the growing inflation, unemployment, lack of jobs and desperate situations of poverty, chronic illnesses, education loans, et al., from the home base it is making many young and middle-aged girls at times compromise or succumb to such chronic sexual predatory harassment.
Now it has reached another level of baselessness altogether in our country because of social networking sites galore where a male worker can easily stalk the movements of any girl or woman by the click of a button. Then because of the abject and deplorable backwardness of our society, it is easy to tarnish the name and living of a poor woman or girl, using a mix of torture ranging from community ostracism, rejection in society, verbal harassment or taunting, and character assassination comments on social media. This has got to stop or it will be like the case of one of my other post-graduate colleagues who wanted to stop her education merely because the college was far; she had to therefore travel by train and there were such male sexual predators on the train who used to molest her everyday going and coming back – therefore she wished to end her education midway for her sanity and peace of mind.
My Lata also had to forego her dream of being an Air Stewardess because she did not have the guts to go through such torture on a regular basis and at that somewhere in the sky! There has to be something better for working girls in our country and I think Mangalam Shiva’s short ‘Angel Flight’ is a social issue fiction short to gear our thinking towards solving this issue in all walks and avenues of life to make our working spaces safe for women and young girls. We deserve better than this, we too are human beings. It is time for some real equality. Read ‘Angel Flight’ to know that it is not only about Air Stewardess but every profession these days in this nook of town.
I especially implore the society and community members of third-world countries like mine to stop judging working girls and women and to stop their chronic tendencies for incurable character assassination online and offline. The life of the 21st century Indian working girl is not easy; in fact it is pathetic - live with that and give us a better deal. You can start by leaving us alone to do our thing. You can also start by trying not to automatically discredit the young girl or woman for the choices she makes in her life. Because the sad fact is that our technological prowess is growing arithmetically but our deplorable habit of sexually abusing each and every girl and woman at the workplace is growing at a geometric pace!
I have always found Mangalam Shiva sir to be an exceptionally talented and moving social issue fiction writer who tells it like it is and I implore all readers to check out his short stories which always remind me of the works of Chetan Bhagat, Nidhi Upadhyay, Sudeep Nagarkar, Nikita Singh with a mix of the suspense of Jeffrey Archer, James Patterson, David Baldacci and Michael Connelly. I saw a lot of Jeffrey Archer and even A.J. Cronin in this one titled ‘Angel Flight’ but with an Indian take and tone to it. I especially love the Indian tone to his fiction which makes his stories sound so authentic and realistically Indian. Totally something Chetan Bhagat would write but with more suspense and more captivating scenarios, but all based on reality.
I easily give Mangalam Shiva sir 5 stars yet again!
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