Amma’s Diary

Sarika and her son Jittu are settling into a quiet routine when new neighbours move in next door. Their young neighbour Gitanjali quickly warms to Sarika, and then Sarika learns who she is: the daughter of Abhiram Naidu, the man Sarika once loved and lost.

The past comes rushing back. Sarika and Abhiram met in their early college days, fell in love and made plans for daring escapades together, until circumstances pulled them apart. Sarika went on to marry Nandagopal, and Ram married Poojitha. Years later, Gitanjali finds her mother's diary and reads the story of Ram and Sarika for herself.

Now life has brought the two of them to a crossroad again. Will they take the chance of a second love, or will the shadows of what happened keep them apart?

The novel asks what we might learn if we read our mothers as people shaped by longing, heartbreak and hope, rather than as the quiet anchors of the household. It is a story about memory handed down through generations, the ache of things left unsaid, and the healing that comes when old silences are broken at last.