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Sita, detective Lalli’s niece and occasional Watson runs into former classmate Anais at Mumbai airport. Even as the friends catch up, Anais hands over a cardboard box she is carrying to a waiting woman, nonchalantly informing the traumatized lady that the box contains her son’s ashes. Some days later, Anais herself turns up dead in the slimy Mithi River, a pink nylon rope wrapped ritually around her neck. What does the cardboard box with human remains ...
Fifteen-year-old Tenral leads two lives. There is the one she leads with her family and her friends at school—‘a skin-of-milk life, easy and forgiving, like five o’clock sunshine’. Into her other, difficult life, move her English teacher, Mrs Alfie, and her dead lover. Tenral recreates their romance, taking her clues from Mrs Alfie’s dramatic rendering of poetry, and ...
A pup with ESP, a benign elephant, a kidnap and a Secret Service led by the famous Rani of Bandalbaaz! This swift and racy tale of the adventures of Jaldi, a railway puppy with special powers, is set against the backdrop of Bombay's notorious underworld. Recruited for the Secret Service by the elegant and ferocious Rani, Jaldi must use her powers to find JP and BB, the evil duo who want to destroy the historic friendship between the proud Bombay Strays and ...
With over 1000 entries on matters of health and disease, A compendium of Family Health is the ideal book to open when you are bewildered by a medical crisis. These are entries designed to inform and clarify. They address worrying questions like: - What could be causing the illness? – Is it serious? – When should I see a doctor? – What can I do immediately to relieve distress? Quick Aids are listed for every emergency. Understanding illness is but a small ...
Clarice Aranxa has come to Bougainvillea House to die. But on her very first morning there, she is pitched back into the turbulent, secret life that she has striven hard to forget for thirty-six years. As Clarice grows weaker from the ravages of motor neuron disease—barely able to walk or even sit up in bed—her violent past is mirrored in fresh tragedies. She retreats into silence, and her doctor, Liaqat Ali Khan, is forced to take a bold step to help her ...
When Lalli's niece finds herself at Hilla Driver's seaside villa for a foodie weekend, murder is the last thing on her mind. She's too busy falling in love with the cook. Also present are a number of page 3 regulars: a best-selling novelist, a jazz dancer, a broken-hearted model, a fiery feminist with a dramatic past and a respectable housewife with a sordid one, a doctor with a fashionable practice and an industrialist with a yen for horses... Each with a secret ...
Dattatray dislikes doing mathematics much to the vexation of his school teacher. He is rebuked and chided for his carelessness. But mathematics is not his cup of tea. The benevolent Dinosaur comes to his rescue. This and other stories have been created by Bombay city which nurtures a great deal of magic.