Woh Main Hi Thi by Mridula Garg | Books That Stayed With Me
Some stories scare you while you are reading them. Others make you uneasy only after you have finished them. वह मैं ही थी (Woh Main Hi Thi) by Mridula Garg belongs to the second kind. I came across this story while exploring modern Hindi literature, and at first it seemed like a ghost story. A pregnant woman moves with her husband to an industrial town. The house they move into comes with an unsettling history: the previous woman who lived there was also pregnant, and she died during childbirth on the very same bed. That sounds like the beginning of a supernatural horror story. It isn't. And that is what makes it so disturbing. The bed The protagonist, Uma, is pregnant and has moved to a dusty industrial town because of her husband's work. The town is surrounded by the dust and pollution of a cement factory. The house is unfamiliar, the surroundings are oppressive, and then she learns what happened to the woman who lived there before her. She died on the bed. As Uma lies on ...
