Warmth of a Falling Tear: When Life is The Only Choice

A young girl in late 1970’s dreamt of a life, filled with love, but an early marriage, killed her aspirations and shattered her belief in love. Life showed no mercy and every breath she took was paid back with hurt and pain until she stood against all social obligations. During late 80's and early 90's, a big metro city like Delhi had very little to offer to a single woman. Constant humiliations and character assassinations were added to her miseries. A woman, who was trying to find her own identity between demanding social obligations and a violent marriage, which was cracking with each passing moment. Despite all odds, she became a working woman with a child and was fighting for her survival alone, disowned and singled out by society. She soon learned that people have many faces and love results only in hurt and pain. There was no place for sparkling dreams and bubbling aspirations in her daily routine, until fate gave her a chance to rewrite her own destiny.

Did she succeed in her struggle to live her dreams when life was the only choice?

Manpreet Kaur Matharoo, a Post Graduate in social work, born in Delhi remained a working mother all her life. She started writing at the age of 11. Warmth of a Falling Tear is the first fiction novel which she started writing in 2009. Her work focuses on lives of women belonging to different sections of our Indian society. Her work manifests the immense strength of women power and their remarkable contribution towards building a nation which goes unacknowledged all the time. She believes that love is the only solution to all the problems in this world and compassion is the only tool that can unite people across the world to counter any threat to humanity.