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A divorced mother with a son, Kaveri remarries and has a child with her new husband. The son, Kartik, from the previous marriage, remains close with his mother but is distant and unattached to his stepfather. Kaveri feels a sense of guilt for the muddled relationship between stepfather and son. It becomes her life work to keep peace. As Kartik grows into a fine young man with a caring attitude and passionate character, Kaveri wishes for him what she never had... ...
Indian fiction scene is very skewed. At one hand there are book by high profile authors whose works are difficult to comprehend and on the other hand there are books by the new authors whose stories revolve round the usual campus stories with predictable storyline. These books are called the books for the youth as if todays youth do not have any other work except boozing and chasing beautiful girls. A new kind of story which will be liked by all those who have ...
Personal experience of the author, Marine engineer.
Volume Title: A swordtail; Magic of coin; Champa;The recruitment; A family albu; Mercy mating; The blunder of time.
A brides worth -- Mahabharat revisited -- The new bling dynasty -- Two fainting goats -- The silicon based life -- Hypatia's murder -- Cocoa forever -- La carjavalian science -- Dahoneyan : the goddess of love -- An involuntary candidate.
A warm time-travel tale. Three women – a man’s sister, a daughter and a granddaughter – chronicle a story that will touch the hearts of women of all ages. The story begins in 1946 in Shekapura (now in Pakistan) and travels to Amrtisar in India via Canada. Through three different time frames. The women witness and record the loves and struggle of Dhiren Ralhan. In the process, they discover a journey which unravels an intricate search and definition for a ...
The book is a beautiful compilation of finely-crafted essays by well-known writers from the Indian subcontinent. The essays range from why India does not have primacy in Asia to the aroma of food. They mostly have a strong, fresh content, often questioning the dominant paradigm. The language too is good, as the editor singularly points out. The editor’s note says, every work featured in the book is one of the best essays each writer has penned. And the only ...
As the title suggests, the book questions the role of the Indian media at a time when what you read and see in newspapers and magazines are not ‘genuine’, but planted stories — for a fee, of course. The contributors in this second volume include Dilip D’Souza, Lina Mathias, Meena Menon, Sevanti Ninan, Frederick Noronha, Meher Pestonji, Nilanjana S Roy, S Sowmya, Farzana Versey and Shivam Vij.
The management of Gapalji Damji Charaitable Hospital in Bombay suddenly decides to terminate the contracts of 14 of its most senior doctors. The plan devised by chief trustee Madhavji Shah and medical director Jagdish Choksi back-fires when another trustee, Prashant Kadakia, leaks the story to the Morning Post newspaper. A blaze of publicity follows. But Kadakia’s real intention is to take over the control of the hospital. Before he can do that, he must raise ...
A Peek into the Indian Army whose glory camouflages dust, grime, blood sweat and tears. A soldier’s moving love story. Terrible sandstorms in Rajasthan the bamboo groves of Arunachal… amidst all these a sensitive soul is trapped in an unrequited love story. Squabbling with petty seniors and blood-sucking leeches, the soldier survives every ordeal because of his deep appreciation of nature and its bounties. His efforts to accomplish his dreams against all odds ...