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Clouds Passing – Chapter 8Are There No Women in Your Forest?

  • Writer: J Jayanthi Chandran
    J Jayanthi Chandran
  • May 14
  • 4 min read

The earth remembers.

But human beings learn how to survive by forgetting.

Those who walked across the sand left their names behind in the wind. Kunti carried silence. Gandhari closed her eyes to the world. Draupadi waited for justice. Devaki lost her children. Bhanumati stood at the edge of war. Radha became the shape of waiting itself. Ganga is eternally young on top

Ganga the mystery of War

“Vikram… what is this?Has the entire burden of the Mahabharata been assigned to me? Is it strength of spirit? Strength of body? Or merely the strength to love endlessly?”

She laughed softly, but the bitterness underneath remained alive.

“If you fail to become the hero,” she thought, “they will turn you into a side character in your own life.”

Then her voice sharpened.

“So your epics were not enough? Not enough heroines in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana? Are there no women left in your forests?”

The room fell into the silence of old civilizations.

History had always preserved women as symbols. Symbols of sacrifice.Symbols of endurance.Symbols of waiting.

But symbols do not live.

Their stories were repeated for centuries only to reinforce one truth:

Even the Quran is also a collection of these women's stories and war behind, pleasing women to be dummy looks like Thai Kaviyam of forgive forsake, the

same story can't be repeated again and again, like making women as mere producers and men's services

A woman will endure. A woman will wait . A woman will transform suffering into meaning.

Yet when clouds move, shadows change.

And she realised something dangerous.

“I am not anyone’s symbol. I am not anyone’s trial.I am not waiting to be chosen.”

In lands built on dust and inheritance, women’s stories were always written through sacrifice. In the name of strength, their voices were slowly erased. In the name of patience, their desires were postponed. In the name of dignity, their freedom was negotiated like property.

But she could no longer accept the contract.

Why was a woman’s worth always measured by her ability to suffer? Why was silence considered duty? Why was resistance treated like sin?

Rules written on sand disappear when rain arrives.

She did not wait for the rain.

She decided to walk beyond the clouds.

She no longer carried history like a punishment. She understood it. And once understood, she learned where to place it.

She did not walk the road of sacrifice.

She walked the road of choice.

“I am a new measurement,” she thought. “My worth will not be calculated through pain. I am not the form that waits . I am the direction that moves. I am not something that must be proven. I am something still becoming.”

The clouds passed overhead.

And beneath them walked a woman —not as a rewritten version of history, but as an entirely new language.

This time, nobody carried her story for her.

She lived it herself.

In public, they believed she had lost everything. Her economy had been broken quietly, professionally, elegantly — as though survival itself had become a controlled experiment.

“Maha,” Vikram said once, “why do you never fully belong to anyone?”

She answered with a tired smile.

“Standard.”

that none could match on too many trials and fake proofs, earning by it grooming with other sleepers

No explanation followed.

“That woman looked at you differently once,” she said later. “In a way I had never seen before. That was when I closed every window.”

Then she laughed again.

“A man can perform affection the way an actor performs love toward even a painted cow on stage. Classical gestures. Controlled expressions. After consuming life completely, they return wearing humility like costume design.”

Her eyes hardened.

“Do not assume every terrifying woman is ugly. Some are frightening precisely because they understand power.”

She paused near the window where the evening light turned metallic.

“You are slowly becoming part of the social performance, Vikram. One day, you will dance perfectly within their system. Later, out of fear, you will step on the very ladder that carried you upward. You will speak like a third person watching his own life.”

Then, almost gently:

“No, Vikram. You will never become the hero of a grand political film. You will become a tragic character from a darker story.”

Outside, society continued its theatre.

Control moved silently — through rooms, properties, reputations, children, inheritance, institutions.

“Police will not arrive dramatically,” she whispered. “They will arrive administratively.”

The next silence lasted longer.

“Maha… all those sons,” he said eventually, “beautiful enough that every royal family desired them. Eye candy for dynasties. Every kingdom asked the same question —Should wealth be shared to create collective growth? Or protected to preserve control?”

After 142 days of creation, the result disappeared. Everyone stole pieces of it while behaving as though nothing had happened.

And somewhere inside all of this chaos, her oldest companion remained alive:

Every delivery is a birth.

Every system sustains you only until it learns how to refrigerate your usefulness and break the runner who could have escaped.

“I know,” she said quietly.

And above them, the clouds continued to pass.


why you come here often and fight?

Your forest doesn't have women?

So much is eternal in the hidden position of prime time.


No, she said, I am a ghost. She locked my neck one night very tight

I myself don't know what for

We have to do something

Don't talk with either black or white men.

It is a dream of heavy work.

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