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Resides in Mumbai, has a weekly column for Gomantak Times’ Weekender, which is published and distributed in Goa. In 2003 published a compilation of twenty-one short stories - ’Quilted, Stories of Middle Class India’, reviewed on SAWNET and Mid-Day.
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No Choice But This
Sheela Jaywant Aug 29, 2007 interacts: 3 Views: 2182A Three Act Play ... what does a father do for a son paralysed neck down...
Revathy Gopal: RIP
Sheela Jaywant Mar 8, 2007 interacts: 54 Views: 6342When I was informed about her demise this evening, I went online to read her column on Chowk and wondered….does one really live on through one’s work? Possibly so, because I now seem to see her essays, specially the ones on religion, in a new
The Birth of a Voice
Sheela Jaywant Jun 16, 2006 interacts: 3 Views: 2969Other than the hoarseness, there was no other indication that he was ill. Unknown to him, this 75-year-old bachelor, an air-conditioning specialist who loved his cigarettes, had developed a malignancy.
Women in the Hospitality Business
Sheela Jaywant Apr 14, 2006 interacts: 9 Views: 4826There were times when persons I knew were either too ‘embarrassed’ to acknowledge my presence or too awkward to say niceties to me because conditioning prevented them from interacting with staff working in hotels
A Ghostly Night in Sunshine Hospital
Sheela Jaywant Feb 17, 2006 interacts: 4 Views: 2179Other ghosts sense that I’m a newcomer. One whisks me off to the mortuary, because, it hisses, ‘ it’s a good place to chill out in’. No luck. The mortuary has ‘dance-practice’ going on inside it
Overcoming Deafness
Sheela Jaywant Nov 25, 2005 interacts: 5 Views: 2795Deafness is an invisible handicap. Deaf babies as well as adults cannot hear themselves crying.
Ravi Thumkar’s Widow
Sheela Jaywant Aug 15, 2005 interacts: 6 Views: 2763Ravi Thumkar’s widow arrived two days after he died. Until then, his body was kept in the Municipal Hospital morgue. He’d died of cirrhosis of the liver, a man pickled by alcohol.
As Good As A Mile
Sheela Jaywant Nov 8, 2004 interacts: 2 Views: 2545He can’t understand why the relative wants to know something she wouldn’t understand even if he told her. Why can’t Indians just let people do their jobs. Always, why this, why that.
When Abu Died
Sheela Jaywant Sep 14, 2004 interacts: 9 Views: 3155“What’s happened ?”, I kept asking aloud. Someone escorted me out. I think it was one of the staff. Not sure. The policeman in the Waiting Room told me the details. Apparently, whilst walking back from work, he was hit by a passing vehic
A Liftman, A Job Well Done
Sheela Jaywant Sep 2, 2004 interacts: 10 Views: 3202“Why does your mother have to carry your bag ?”
“I can’t.”
“Why not? You have one hand, don’t you?”
Sheela Jaywant
- Articles on Chowk: 10
- First article: Sep 2, 2004
- Latest article: Aug 29, 2007
- Times read on Chowk: 32958
