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Book Synopsis In the Shadow of Inheritance by : Manjiri Prabhu
Download or read book In the Shadow of Inheritance written by Manjiri Prabhu and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting dream. A sinister legend. Mesmerizing love. The appearance of a mysterious and attractive stranger in the small town of Adeli changes Tara’s life forever. She’s now the heiress to the Khanolkar Rajwada in Mahabaleshwar. However, the palatial home that is her ancestral legacy is also full of people with deep, dark secrets and one of them is her father’s murderer. Evil lurks in the shadows, as does love. But Tara can’t rely on anyone as someone out there is determined to prove the legend right and to finish the incomplete murderous task of the past. Read on to find out what Tara’s fate will be . . .
Book Synopsis The Shadow of the Crescent Moon by : Fatima Bhutto
Download or read book The Shadow of the Crescent Moon written by Fatima Bhutto and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-listed for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, a lyrical novel set over the course of one morning in a small town in Pakistan Fatima Bhutto’s stunning debut novel chronicles the lives of five young people trying to live and love in a world on fire. Set during the American invasion of Afghanistan, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon begins and ends one rain-swept Friday morning in Mir Ali, a small town in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas close to the Afghan border. Three brothers meet for breakfast. Soon after, the eldest, Aman Erum, recently returned from America, hails a taxi to the local mosque. Sikandar, a doctor, drives to the hospital where he works, but must first stop to collect his troubled wife, who has not joined the family that morning. No one knows where Mina goes these days. Sikandar is exhausted by Mina’s instability and by the pall of grief that has enveloped his family. But when, later in the morning, the two are taken hostage by members of the Taliban, Mina will prove to be stronger than anyone could have imagined. The youngest of the three leaves for town on a motorbike. An idealist, Hayat holds strong to his deathbed promise to their father—to free Mir Ali from oppressors. Seated behind him is a beautiful, fragile girl whose life and thoughts are overwhelmed by the war that has enveloped the place of her birth. Three hours later their day will end in devastating circumstances. In this beautifully observed novel, individuals are pushed to make terrible choices. And as the events of this single morning unfold, one woman is at the center of it all. Praise for The Shadow of the Crescent Moon "Bhutto writes of an extraordinary place where beauty lives alongside brutality, with superb poise and a kind of defiant lyricism." —The Times (UK) "[The Shadow of the Crescent Moon] is... a human story, with love as well as ideology - Bhutto blends the two adroitly (and) writes with great poignancy, keeping the emotional pitch high." —Financial Times
Book Synopsis Shadow over the Henna Tree by : Rummana Chowdhury
Download or read book Shadow over the Henna Tree written by Rummana Chowdhury and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the touching love story of Moyna, born and brought up in Toronto, who goes to discover her roots in Bangladesh, and Shafiq, who is a Bangladeshi war baby, (War of Independence of 1971) but has been adopted and raised in Canada. The readers are immersed with the cross cultures of Bangladesh and Canada. Many a time her inherent lessons from Shakespeare, Maugham, Ondaatje, Atwood, Darvesh, and Akhmatova are pinned against her personal inground teachings of Zainul Abedin, Jasimuddin, Lalon Fakir, Hason Raja, Tagore, and Nazrul. Her inward-eye ponders over the literary crosscurrents of Buddhism and Sufi poetry and the world of Humayun Ahmed and Shamsur Rahman. Moynas confusion has no boundaries. The fruits, blossoms, and seasons of Bangladesh are compared with the changes of nature in Canada. The Murshedi, Bhatiali, and devotional songs of the East are contrasted with the country, jazz, blues, and folk songs of Canada. The universal language of poverty and suppression, of forceful acceptance- these are lines that Moyna must learn to blur as a diasporic South Asian female. Moynas brother has been eternally unhappy and sleepless for years and years trying to make sense of these very lines. It is cruel to even ask Aakash to try harder. A person who has never slept peacefully in such a long time cannot do justice to blurring lines without sacrificing something more. Moyna was pensively walking down Yonge Street in downtown Toronto. The cosmopolitan mixture of faces in front of the Eaton Centre amazed her. Black, brown, white, beige, yellow all shades, shapes and sizes. African-Canadians, Italian-Canadians, Chinese-Canadians, Japanese-Canadians, Indian-Canadians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Koreans and so on and so forth. Were they all Canadians or were they still clinging to their past roots of culture and tradition? Seemingly like any other tree with dark and light green hued leaves, the henna tree did not appear to be particularly special or powerful, yet the unimaginable burst of flaming red colour when made into a paste and applied to hands, feet or hair was a miracle. The henna tree was as mysterious as life itself, with all its intricate mysteries. Often shadows darken lifes images with their tales of sadness and frustration but the silver lining of the clouds rotate and bring about unending stories of joy and merriment. The shadow which had covered the henna tree could gradually move away.
Book Synopsis The Ace of Shadows by : Balakrishna Kamath
Download or read book The Ace of Shadows written by Balakrishna Kamath and published by Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 1901 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suspicious phone call received in the Agra jail, and two articles written by a retired Brigadier in a Pakistan newspaper, stir up India's Internal Intelligence Agency. Yashwant Narayan Godbole, the Agency's ace sleuth, connects the dots to infer that these innocuous events point to a more sinister and diabolical plot by the ISI, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence. Based on Godbole's hunch, the Agency jumpstarts Project Mantra – a secret operation that was lying in limbo for two years, following the mysterious disappearance of their undercover agent. The express objective this time is to neutralise the ISI's nefarious 'Mission BlackRock' that could otherwise have ominous internal and international ramifications for India. Armed with only the sketchiest details, Godbole and his team of operatives face an uphill battle to unravel the enemy's plot. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking as fortunes swing back and forth for both parties. Long and tedious hours of surveillance, losing the quarry, picking up threads in different cities, long, hot and thrilling chases through the most unlikely of places make this a unique gambit. Clashes become inevitable, and the game turns perilous as the Agency's operatives pit their wits against the relentless ISI team. Will Pakistan's military doctrine - 'bleed India with a thousand cuts', be able to inflict damage on the nation’s strategic interests? In this high-stake game of smoke & mirrors, who will emerge as 'The Ace of Shadows'?
Book Synopsis Stories from a migrant city by : Ben Rogaly
Download or read book Stories from a migrant city written by Ben Rogaly and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a biographical approach, the book explores the causes and consequences of moving or staying put in the context of class inequality and racisms, and looks for commonalities between people often seen as irredeemably divided.
Download or read book Urmila written by Pervin Saket and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recapturing the mythical journey of love and longing in contemporary India Inspired by the story of Lakshman’s wife from Ramayana, Urmila traces a tale of rejection and a woman’s passionate search for love, rekindling questions of devotion and desire. The talented and passionate Urmila Karmarkar has recently married into a wealthy, politically connected family in suburban Mumbai. When Urmila’s brother-in-law is compelled to move to Dubai, her husband leaves her behind and chooses to follow him instead. Fuelled by this rejection, Urmila seeks solace in her art as she battles to keep her dreams of love and motherhood alive, waiting for her husband to return. Pervin Saket was shortlisted for the Random House India Writers’ Bloc award in 2013. Her fiction has appeared in Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction inspired by the Ramayana, The Asian Writer Collection, Earthen Lamp Journal and other works. Her collection of poetry, A Tinge of Turmeric, was published in 2008.
Download or read book In The Shadows written by Garry James and published by A Light Heart Publication. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all have experienced life in our own way. We are inspired by people who have walked ahead of us and left a treasure of experiences. In-spite of it some still see an opportunity and brave the odds disrupting the set barriers bringing a change, leaving a new benchmark by attempting something which was once termed ridiculous or absurd setting a new norm. This is a story of two family, who follow the same faith, belief, tradition, culture. The difference is the environment in which they are brought up. You cannot be happy in someone else’s shoes therefore, choice on how to live is our own decision & responsibility. Some want easy going life filled with love, warmth, and happiness, some enjoy the thrill of life. One a humble lover living a life served on a platter and accepting the day as it is served. Another a sportsman an entrepreneur, a "sportspreneur" who accepted the challenges thrown at him, facing the odds and finally to be called a “Sports Prince”. On purchase of this ebook, get FREE an ebook of "Prateeksha - an anthology of thrilling stories". Write to the author [email protected] along with your invoice number and email id for verification, and you will get the ebook in mail.
Book Synopsis In and Out the Shadows by : Sandy Brownjohn
Download or read book In and Out the Shadows written by Sandy Brownjohn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These imaginative poems for children written by Sandy Brownjohn take youon the wheel of Chance, show you Old Nick exercising his demons, and give you apigeon's A to Z of London.She advises you to beware of the sheep, watch you for killer minks, and tellsyou the difference between Persian satraps and catnaps in the catnips. Theywill make you think and laugh at the same time.With previous publications by Hodder and Stoughton, Sandy Brownjohn iswell-known for her books on teaching children to write poetry and her booksfeature on many college of education reading lists. After 20 years as afull-time classroom teacher, she is now a freelance writer and educationalconsultant. She lives in London.
Book Synopsis Focus: Popular Music in Contemporary India by : Natalie Sarrazin
Download or read book Focus: Popular Music in Contemporary India written by Natalie Sarrazin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focus: Popular Music in Contemporary India examines India’s musical soundscape beyond the classical and folk traditions of old to consider the culturally, socially, and politically rich contemporary music that is defining and energizing an Indian youth culture on the precipice of a major identity shift. From Bollywood film songs and Indo-jazz to bhangra hip-hop and Indian death metal, the book situates Indian popular music within critical and historical frameworks, highlighting the unprecedented changes the region’s music has undergone in recent decades. This critical approach provides readers with a foundation for understanding an Indian musical culture that is as diverse and complex as the region itself. Included are case studies featuring song notations, first-person narratives, and interviews of well-known artists and emerging musicians alike. Illuminated are issues of great import in India today—as reflected through its music—addressing questions of a "national" aesthetic, the effects of Western music, and identity politics as they relate to class, caste, LGBTQ perspectives, and other marginalized voices. Presented through a global lens, Focus: Popular Music in Contemporary India contextualizes the dynamic popular music of India and its vast cultural impact.
Download or read book Shadow Of Love written by D.A (DeepAnshu) and published by D.A (DeepAnshu). This book was released on with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the enchanting world of "Shadows of Love," the lines between love and action blur as three extraordinary individuals navigate a path filled with romance, destiny, and a hidden darkness lurking beneath the surface. Meet Deep, a charismatic and brilliant student who finds himself torn between his carefree social life and the depths of his ambitions as a graphic designer. As he steps into the professional realm at his father's firm, Deep's world is about to be forever altered. Christelle, a compassionate and talented soul, carries the weight of her mother's absence from an early age. Focused on her journey as an aspiring interior designer, she cherishes her time spent with Deep's parents and her own father, seeking solace in their comforting presence. Enter Roma, with her innocent allure and striking features. The tall and enigmatic Roma captivates hearts effortlessly, drawing attention from both Deep and Christelle. Their intertwined destinies unravel as they navigate the intricate dynamics of a love triangle, where emotions run deep and choices must be made. As love intensifies, so does the unfolding of secrets. Deep's startling revelation about his true nature as a demon sends shockwaves through their intertwined lives. Meanwhile, Roma discovers her uncanny ability to peer into the future, further complicating their shared journey. "Shadows of Love" is a captivating tale that explores the depths of human emotion, the thrill of action, and the allure of the supernatural. Can love conquer the darkness that looms over their intertwined fates? Join Deep, Christelle, and Roma on a gripping adventure that will leave you spellbound until the very last page.
Book Synopsis The Case of the Reincarnated Client by : Tarquin Hall
Download or read book The Case of the Reincarnated Client written by Tarquin Hall and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hilarious ... Hall’s plot is filled with engaging twists. Vish is a wonderfully realized character ... You can dive in anywhere in this series and be rewarded with a rich experience" – Booklist Starred Review A client claiming she was murdered in a past life is a novel dilemma even for Vish Puri, India's Most Private Investigator. When a young woman comes forward claiming to be the reincarnation of Riya Kaur, a wife and mother who vanished during the bloody 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Puri is dismissive. He's busy enough dealing with an irate matrimonial client whose daughter is complaining about her groom’s thunderous snoring. Puri's indomitable Mummy-ji however is adamant the client is genuine. How else could she so accurately describe under hypnosis Riya Kaur's life and final hours? Driven by a sense of duty - the original case was his late father’s - Puri manages to acquire the police file only to find that someone powerful has orchestrated a cover-up. Forced into an alliance with his mother that tests his beliefs and high blood pressure as never before, it’s only by delving into the past the help of his reincarnated client that Puri can hope to unlock the truth.
Book Synopsis The Shadow That Seeks the Sun by : Ray Brooks
Download or read book The Shadow That Seeks the Sun written by Ray Brooks and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An uplifting story of enlightenment that reveals simple yet profound truths about our true nature, set amidst the atmospheric banks of the River Ganges that will appeal to both the self-help, non-duality, and "Eat, Pray, Love" travel markets. "No effort is necessary, Ray, no new knowledge required or acquired. No transcendental experience or higher consciousness needs to be achieved. When the recognition of what you are is seen - nothing at all happens. Why would it? You simply find yourself as you already are." It is widely thought that finding peace, happiness and freedom requires tremendous effort - that in order to achieve a state of contentment and harmony in life, a journey must be taken, or someone or something must be awakened or overcome. After a chance encounter with an Anglo-Indian holy man on the ghats of the sacred River Ganges, Ray Brooks discovers through the course of nine conversations that his quest for wholeness has been futile: no such journey was necessary, and, just like a shadow that seeks the sun, he had been searching for a self that had never been lost in the first place. After acknowledging that simple yet profound truth - that the seeker and that which is sought are one in the same - the search for "oneness" is complete. This book offers no systems of belief or promises. Instead, it clearly points to that which is ever-present yet completely overlooked: the ordinariness and beauty of our true nature.
Book Synopsis Under the Shadow of Militancy by : Tej N. Dhar
Download or read book Under the Shadow of Militancy written by Tej N. Dhar and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary fell into the hands of Tej N. Dhar, who has reworked it in turn to give it the current shape and form. Retrieved from the rubble of a vandalised house, the diary throws light on the life of a Kashmiri Pandit who lived under the constant shadow of death the trauma that Pandits in the valley are familiar with. The diary recaptures the dramatic political developments in the valley in the early 1990s a crucial period in the growth of militancy and its consequent impact on the lives of Pandits in the valley.
Book Synopsis A History of Burning by : Janika Oza
Download or read book A History of Burning written by Janika Oza and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the 2024 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Finalist for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Finalist for the 2023 Governor General's Award for Fiction Named a Best Book of 2023 by the New York Times, The New Yorker, the Globe and Mail, CBC Books, Kobo Canada, and 49th Shelf Four generations. Three sisters. One impossible choice. A profoundly moving debut novel spanning India, Uganda, England, and Canada, about how one act of survival reverberates across generations of a family and their search for a place of their own. Named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Pick, and a most anticipated book of 2023 by the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, OprahDaily, and Goodreads. India, 1898. Pirbhai is the thirteen-year-old breadwinner for his family when he steps into a dhow on the promise of work, only to be taken across the ocean to labour on the East African Railway for the British. With no money or voice but a strong will to survive, he makes an impossible choice that will haunt him for the rest of his days and reverberate across generations. Pirbhai’s children go on to thrive in Uganda during the waning days of British colonial rule. As the country moves towards independence and military dictatorship, Pirbhai’s granddaughters—sisters Latika, Mayuri, and Kiya—come of age in a divided nation, each forging her own path for the future. Latika is an aspiring journalist with a fierce determination to fight for what she believes in. Mayuri’s ambitions will take her farther away from her family than she ever imagined. And fearless Kiya will have to bear the weight of their secrets. Forced to flee Uganda during Idi Amin’s brutal expulsion of South Asians in 1972, the family must start their lives over again in Toronto. Then one day news arrives that makes each generation question how far they are willing to go, and who they are willing to defy, to secure a place of their own in the world. A masterful and breathtakingly intimate saga of colonialism and exile, complicity and resistance, A History of Burning is a radiant debut about the stories our families choose to share—and those that remain unspoken.
Book Synopsis A Walk Along the Ganges by : Dennison Berwick
Download or read book A Walk Along the Ganges written by Dennison Berwick and published by Dennison Berwick. This book was released on 1987 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dishoom written by Shamil Thakrar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A love letter to Bombay told through food and stories, including their legendary black daal' Yotam Ottolenghi At long last, Dishoom share the secrets to their much sought-after Bombay comfort food: the Bacon Naan Roll, Black Daal, Okra Fries, Jackfruit Biryani, Chicken Ruby and Lamb Raan, along with Masala Chai, coolers and cocktails. As you learn to cook the comforting Dishoom menu at home, you will also be taken on a day-long tour of south Bombay, peppered with much eating and drinking. You'll discover the simple joy of early chai and omelette at Kyani and Co., of dawdling in Horniman Circle on a lazy morning, of eating your fill on Mohammed Ali Road, of strolling on the sands at Chowpatty at sunset or taking the air at Nariman Point at night. This beautiful cookery book and its equally beautiful photography will transport you to Dishoom's most treasured corners of an eccentric and charming Bombay. Read it, and you will find yourself replete with recipes and stories to share with all who come to your table. 'This book is a total delight. The photography, the recipes and above all, the stories. I've never read a book that has made me look so longingly at my suitcase' Nigel Slater
Book Synopsis Elusive Summits by : Victor Saunders
Download or read book Elusive Summits written by Victor Saunders and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elusive Summits is the award winning first book by British mountaineer Victor Saunders, winner of the 1990 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. Documenting climbs in the 1980s, at a time when the greatest mountains in the greatest ranges had been climbed by numerous routes, collected like sets of stamps and written about extensively by the world's leading climbers, Saunders and his companions relished the exploration of the thousands of peaks in the 6000 and 7000 metre range. These slightly humbler, but often more aesthetically satisfying and no less testing summits of the Karakoram and the Himalaya, were ripe fruit for the committed alpinists of the day. Saunders describes four lightweight expeditions to the Karakoram, beginning with Uzum Brakk, or Conway's Ogre, which he visited in 1980. Along with his two climbing companions, neither of whom he knew at all well, he discovered the serious nature of Karakoram glaciers, and faced up to the violent weather that eventually beat them back on the summit ridge after they had nominally completed their route. The trio interrupted their attempt on Uzum to perform a dramatic rescue of two badly injured Japanese climbers on nearby Latok IV, and this contact led indirectly to Bojohaghur Duanasir, one of the highest unclimbed mountains in Pakistan, which became the object of the North London Mountaineering Club's attentions in 1982. Here, in the company of such friends and climbing partners as Mick Fowler, the joy of new route finding on an unclimbed 7000-metre peak outweighed the perilous bivoua and torture by lightening. 1983 offered a rare chance to join Indian climbers on the front line of the Indian-Pakistan border conflict across the Siachen Glacier. The pleasure of solving intricate technical problems with Stephen Venables high above the firing line was brought to an abrupt end by a dropped rucksack which caused an epic descent from just below the then unclimbed summit of Rimo. The fourth expedition was an attempt on the stunning peak of Spantik. First glimpsed from Bojohaghur, this a mountain whose awe-inspiring Golden Pillar, soaring 4000 feet to the summit ridge, demanded attention. Saunders' ascent in 1987 with Mick Fowler, and subsequent pitch-by-grunt account, proved to be one of the most exciting and difficult ascents of the decade by British alpinists. Saunders communicates the highs and lows of expedition life with relish, good humour, honest trepidation and a keen eye for the idiosyncratic among his companions. Elusive Summits is a wonderful celebration of the sheer exhilaration that comes from the hardest level of alpine-style exploration in the Karakoram.
