This is the story of Kumud who is forced to go far away in Bengal to work She gets the difficult task of taking care of a mentally sick wife of a royal persona The world of the mentally sick, the earning unmarried young daughters of lower middle class families and the psychology of a mother who feels the moral burden of turning her daughter into a cash machine give a special flavour and dramatic turn to the novel The second novel in this volume is Vivart Lalitha who is one of the seven children in the family decides to remain single