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Naaz and Yasmin are twins, but they couldn’t be more different. Yasmin is blessed with the kind of beauty Naaz can only dream about, and is the favourite of Sophie, their English mother. Naaz has the unconditional love of her strong-willed Parsi grandmother, who helps her build a world that cannot be infringed by Yasmin. Naaz decides to excel in ways that Yasmin never can, and is relieved when their lives move in different directions. But the past has an uneasy ...
The Dun valley in the early 1970s: the enclave of the idle affluent—quiet, green and temperate, as much of India is not. Just the kind of place where ‘the girls from overseas’, five white women married to Indian men, should feel least displaced. Yet, Gertrude, Jane, Michelle, Sandy and Louise are vaguely unhappy: they wish they could be elsewhere, and hold weekly tea parties where they only meet each other. Their sole ally here is Jason, a young American ...
On his birthday, Dev visits Kadar Khan Kennels to fetch his very own, beautiful, golden puppy, but returns with big, black, gaunt scarred and ugly Rajah instead. Will Dev's love help the dog recover? Will Rajah ever regain his sweetness of temper?
'Some women should never wear clothes-clothes that hide the shape and colour of their flesh and skin…' In the title story, Robie is looking for a model for a nude he has to paint, when he is introduced to Mrs. Oliver by his friend Turner. When he sees her, he is disappointed at how utterly unsuited she is as a subject for the kind of painting he has in mind. However, when she poses, he realizes that some women look best in the nude. Bhima cheats on her devoted ...