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Cracks in the Wall is a collection of short stories that deal with attempts to heal. It
reveals multi-faceted struggles—mental, familial, societal—individuals confront
as they navigate their fears, traumas and desires through their lives. It gives
readers a window into the tumult that such a process entails, with insightful
but often difficult revelations. Be it a working woman in an abusive marriage
who finally finds the courage to seek help, a mother who has to choose
between the government and rebels to keep her child safe, a wife who must
come to terms with lost motherhood or a marriage stifled by megalomania, these
stories mirror deep-rooted fractures both at a personal and social level.

The causes could be gender inequality, shame around addiction, mental abuse
and conflicts between classes as well as between the urban and rural. Faith
plays a role both incrementally and startlingly—the spiritual quest seeded
randomly or through a slow process of transformation—as do dreams, to
deepen understanding of the human psyche. Each story lets us enter a world
within a world, inviting us to look closer into them.

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