The jarring cry that pierced through the silent, inky night woke up many dead secrets. Kabir was preparing to go to sleep as he spread the old, rumpled mattress on his charpoy. He craned his neck towards the sound and suddenly stiffened. The cry had reawakened a past that he had begun to forget...he lifted the brass lantern that was hanging by a hook on the wall a little above his bed. Its glass chimney cocooned an oil wick that flickered faintly through the collage of greasy fingerprints. He went outside; the lantern swayed from side to side, making creaking sounds as if defying the cold wind that dared to lap up its warmth. He raised it to his eye level and looked down the hill as far as his sight could stretch. Some eighty steps down, he caught a faint speck of light. Mahua was still awake.... The river beside her hut flowed quietly, following its deep green serpentine course. The wail had repeated itself after five years. Last time Noor was born, unwelcome and hated. But what was this? Such cries undoubtedly suggested the arrival of a new life or death. Questions exploded in the dark, but the answer was strangely vacuumed. The doubts invited only unacceptable conclusions. It couldn't be the arrival of life, and Kabir shuddered to think otherwise....
Mana Verma is an alumnus of Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University, and a post-graduation Certification holder from Harvard Business School. She is an award-winning author of 10 books and over a dozen anthologies, which have been the subject of the thesis for many Research Scholars and the ICSE ELT series. The Former member of the Asia Development Bank, also co-owns DISHA, wherein she works as Executive Presence Coach and Leadership Skills Facilitator for MNCs and PSUs. Recipient of the Rex Karamveer Gold Medal by ICongo and the United Nations, she has been listed in the 50 Iconic Authors 2022 Category by Aesthetics International. The recipient of the Uttarakhand Ratan, Hindustan Times Woman of the Year, and Munshi Premchand Sahitya Puraskar is also serving as Chairperson Literature Committee, FICCIFLO, Uttarakhand for the fourth consecutive year. She is also serving as a Mentor at Womennovator-a Global Incubator for Women and has been repeatedly invited by the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, for training the armed forces from both India and other nations. India Today's March 2023 edition has listed her amongst the Top 8 emerging Indian women. In October 2023, her name and writings were found in an impressive mention in the prestigious British Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English.
The river remembers... In 1947, when the Radcliffe Line slashed across Punjab, it split not only a country, but the souls who called it home. Yashveer, Mahua, Devika, Amy, Emma, and Noor are bound by love, divided by faith, and swept into the storm of Partition that will change them forever. Decades later, Mahua-eighty, frall, lost to the world, drifts between past and present, her mind a quiet riverbed where forgotten stories lie sleeping. Until one day, a visitor arrives, carrying a shard of truth that disturbs the still water of years. As silence breaks and memories surge, the river bears witness once more. It knows the secrets that time tried to drown the betrayals, the loves, the sins that shaped generations. Set in Ghakkar Mandi, Punjab (now in Pakistan), The River That Remembers traces three generations of Seth Jamnadas's family-once proud zamindars-whose fates are reshaped by love, loss, and the cruel tide of history.
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