By Deepa Nair




Two fears have assailed me since I started enjoying reading. The twin fears of memory loss and loss of eyesight have been present in MY subconscious mind for long. Reading fiction is something I love. 

 I love writing by women, not the acclaimed ones like Margaret Atwood, Doris Lessing and Nadine Gordimer. I love that which is usually dismissed as chicklit. But I find that it deals with ordinary people like me, with the same concerns and cares that I have. It comforts me that there are other women in other parts of the world who are experiencing the same worries, fears and anxieties that I experience. 

 It is very difficult to meet people who share our wavelength in every sense of the term, so when I meet somebody like that in a novel, I feel that someone somewhere has experienced what I have felt. So no matter what the world says, kudos to CHICKLIT. 

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