R. CHUDAMANI wrote some 700 to 800 short stories in the 70's and 80's characterized by a sensitive approach to women who make telling statements, always non evaluative and non judgmental. She filled her stories with characters one could empathize with, many of them drawn from middle class orthodoxy, but still expressing themselves with conviction and a surprising modernity, reflecting CHUDAMANI'S own evolved vision - all portrayed with rare sensitivity and understanding, amazing for a woman known to be reclusive in nature, and who spent most of her life writing in a small room, looking out at a Nagalingam tree through her window.
These stories written half a century ago reflect her as a writer far, far ahead of her times. We trust these stories we present will find an answering chord in you.