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Prem Kohli, the handsome, ambitious son of a Sikh refugee, has the world at his feet. A glittering career lies ahead, and he has just got engaged to his college girlfriend, Deepa, overcoming her parents’ reservations about Hindus and Sikhs intermarrying. But, while Deepa remains occupied with their marriage plans, the Indian Army enters the Golden Temple. Prem cannot contain his rising anger at the desecration of the shrine and at the people around him who ...
On October 31, 1984, a sixteen-year-old Amrita Gill came home to find her parents murdered in the riots following Indira Gandhi's assassination. Since then, she has lived in Seattle for thirteen years, wanting nothing to do with the life she left behind in India. Now, however, she finds the past pulling at her. First, she receives a letter from an unknown man in Vancouver called Gurbachan Singh, who says he has something to tell her. Soon after that, she learns ...
The Hindu Nationalist movement, Mahatma Gandhi’s Assassination, a Seattle-based computer engineer and a Perry Mason novel are just some of the threads woven into the tapestry of this story. Meticulously researched, The Wages of Life interweaves India’s past and present to tell a story that blends fact and fiction, while retaining all the elements of a classic mystery-an intricate plot, unfolding through a fast-paced narrative, leading to an unexpected climax.