Shadows was published in Eve’s Weekly in its December 1978 issue, under my maiden name- Janaki Viswanath. Eve’s Weekly has become defunct now. I wrote the story when I was 23 years old. I didn’t want to change the story much. I have retained its flawed ending, to keep the flavour of the age and the times. It was the seventies - middle class Indian women didn’t divorce so easily. They stayed on in loveless marriages. If they did digress, it was only to a safe relationship. They didn’t go all the way. I would have ended it differently if I were to write the story now.
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