# Wind Chimes

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**Author:** Vimala Ramu
 **Pages:** 70 **Year of Publication:** 2009 **Price:** 
HB Rs 100, FB Rs 80 **ISBN:** HB 978-81-8157-899-0 (9788181578990) FB 978-81-8157-
900-3 (9788181579003)

_**About the Author**_
 Vimala Ramu was born on 27 October 1937 as the seventh child
of N. Narasimha Iyengar (Executive Engineer of the Public Works Department in Mysore).
She obtained a First Class in her B. Sc. from Maharani’s College (Mysore University)
in 1955 and completed her B. Ed. in 1977 from MES Teachers’ College (Bangalore University)
with, not surprisingly, First Class marks once more. She married Flt Lt. B.S. Ramu,
a tech officer in IAF in 1958 and has three children. She has written two other 
books: _**Rainsong**_ (2008) and _**Dew Drops**_ (2009), both of which have been
brought out by **Writers Workshop**, India.

_**Teaser**_

_The House that Jaya Built_

“One day, Jaya was entering the house. She could hear her parents talking to someone
loudly inside. She tiptoed cautiously. Someone was saying, “No, this time I have
come for good. I was wrong to go with the other woman. She has given me nothing 
but trouble. Even the two children she gave me are no good.” It was Raju! The man
she had married! Her own husband! Her eyes went to her wedding picture on the wall.
How handsome and muscular he had become! When he looked at her like that, she was
ready to leave everything to go and live with him.”

_**Contents**_

PART I: FICTION
 End of the Rainbow / 11 I Was Jyothi’s Eye / 13 The Silver Lining/
15 The Graduation / 18 The Silent Deepavali / 21 The Wait / 24 Statistics Do Not
Lie / 28 The House that Jaya Built / 32

PART II: MEMOIRS
 The Morning Constitutional / 39 Reminiscences in Marble / 42 The
Stone School / 45 Teachers’ College Excursion / 48 Holiday at Grandfather’s / 53
Few of My (Un)favourite Things / 59 Teachers’ Day / 62 My Quirky Gadgets / 65