We Are Powerful - Emerge Stronger  (English, Paperback, Preetha Kadhir)

This collection of six short stories is set in the city of Madras in the 1990s. Those were more relaxed times when the man from the bakery still brought you cakes and bread on a pushcart, when students were allowed to go out of the school gates to have their lunch and it was safe for children to be left alone till working parents came home. The stories in this anthology revolve around school girls and gives the reader an insight into their thinking, their troubles and their insecurities. Though there is no real answer to their problems, the Dear Diary at the end of every story addresses the issues providing food for thought.