The War Within

Prejudices and belief systems can be crippling. Sometimes, you may remain completely unaware of your deep-seated prejudice. What if your prejudices, beliefs, and traditions are challenged? What if the shackles of the past, intrude into your present? What if you are forced to make life-changing decisions by letting go of them?
The War Within is a collection of short stories that explore the lives of people caught up in just such situations. They are ordinary people living ordinary lives. Yet they are forced into situations of choice....just like you and me. Their upbringing, their belief systems, their prejudices force on them a worldview that creates a storm within them. They must let go of their prejudices, belief systems or deep-seated fears or reaffirm them, if peace must prevail.

This collection of psychological stories or mindscapes, uses the stream-of-consciousness technique to present the character's perspective in a multitude of ways. Some of these stories are short and others are slightly longer in accordance with the organic demand of the tale.

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Dr. Vanitha Vaidialingam, Ph.D., IRS, is a Doctorate in English, MBA in Operations Management; a voluntarily retired Civil Servant, and a practicing freelance management consultant. She was born into a middle-class Tamil speaking family and has lived a large part of her life in Chennai. She currently works as a management consultant.

Vanitha loves writing and has been writing on and off for several years now. Much of her published writing has been on technology and management subjects to date. This is her first attempt at publishing fiction. She published a collection of short stories titled "The War Within" in September 2014 on Amazon and later on Smashwords in December 2014.

The second collection of Short Stories titled "Coffee Bites: A tale with your cuppa" is in the making.

A book on spiritual experiences titled "Close Encounters of a Mystic Kind" was published by Life Positive Private Limited, Mumbai in 2015 in print edition and was completely sold out within two years of launch. The second edition of the book with updates is published on Amazon.com.