Download or read book A Compendium of Short Stories by Jeff Tikari written by Jeff Tikari and published by Jeff Tikari. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: his is a delightful collection of crisp and intriguing short stories that will enliven and charm your leisure hours. The writer employs the ‘Today-technology’ of story telling: An economy of words; a simplicity of style; and a tempo and cadence that match the brisk life-style of today.
Download or read book Aroma of Orange Pekoe by Jeff Tikari written by Jeff Tikari and published by Jeff Tikari. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book comprising anecdotes and snippets from the lives of tea planters - a breed that lived in far flung and remote areas which were, in some cases, not connected by rail or road and depended heavily on weekly air supplies that were delivered by war vintage Dakotas or single engined aircraft that landed on grass strips built by plantation labourers. Scottish and British planters were the pioneers who felled vast jungles to create Plantations. They built roads, factories, and bungalows for themselves and for their wives who visited from Scotland and England. They built clubs where they played games (tennis, squash, cricket, soccer and polo) and where they danced, entertained, and drank to ease the solitary life and cope with the rugged living conditions. A thoroughly entertaining volume that describes the amusing tales and episodes of the life of tea and coffee planters from northeast India, south India, and the Highlands of Papua New guinea.
Download or read book Episodes of Ecstasy by Jeff Tikari written by Jeff Tikari and published by Jeff Tikari. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of crisp well written short stories with an Indian backdrop; the stories are written in a style that matches the fast paced life-trend of today and are pitched to hold ones interest right through to the end where a surprise conclusion leaves a good after-glow.
Download or read book To Sweeten Boredom by Jeff Tikari written by Jeff Tikari and published by Jeff Tikari. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories are a trend today as are e-books where a large number can be accommodated on a reading devise to read at leisure. No longer need one carry an armload of books; electronic readers like the kindle weighing a few ounces can do it for you very efficiently. This volume is a collection of crisp well written short stories with an Indian backdrop; the stories are written in a style that matches the fast pace life-trend of today. They are pitched to hold ones interest right through to the end where a surprise conclusion leaves a good after-glow
Download or read book Laugh Like a Dog by Jeff Tikari written by Jeff Tikari and published by Jeff Tikari. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laugh like a Dog John Rao is of Eurasian/Anglo-Indian descent. A Catholic scholarship enables him to enrol at an expensive college where he meets Meena Rowal. John is handsome, well built and smart. Meena is short, stout and homely. But the angle that sets her apart is her enormous wealth. To John’s meagre and pedestrian social standing there could not be anything more desirable in a girl. They date – Meena introduces him to expensive clubs and restraunts; they indulge sex in hotel rooms, and the inevitable happens – Meena conceives. Meena and John marry clandestinely in a small church attended by John’s mother and brother. The Rowal family finds out and persuades John to marry in the Hindu way as well. John now moves into the Rowals’ family Mansion. But the situation sours progressively. Meena treats John off-handedly; whilst at the same time lavishes gifts on him regularly to keep him in line. John’s demands for wealth grow and Meena’s father, Ranjit, wonders if he may have to have his son-in-law eliminated for his growing greed. John has been homosexually involved with Tom, (another Anglo-Indian boy) whom he deserts by marrying Meena, but not before he rapes Tom’s young sister, Sally. Tom is less hurt by his sister being raped than by John’s cruel betrayal. Tom attempts to shoot John but misses through tear blurred vision. They reconcile later when John manoeuvres and gets Tom and his sister to live in one of the rooms in the large Rowal Mansion. John is dragged off by his wife to her mother’s farm for a few days. Tom and Sally are left behind. Ranjit (Meena’s father) notices Sally’s impish attractiveness and is strongly drawn to her. He offers her a job in his office and to get rid of Tom, offers him a job as Manager on his wife’s farm. When John returns he hears with incredulity Tom’s account of Ranjit’s enchantment with Sally. John doesn’t know how best to use this piece of information to his advantage. In the meanwhile, Meena arrives in a huff from her mother’s farm: John had, insolently, not thanked her mother for his stay on the farm. Meena addresses him rudely and John blows a fuse, “Piss off, bitch!.” He shouts at her. His demeanour is threatening and Meena is thoroughly cowed down. In one fell stroke John has attained ascendancy in the relationship and Meena feels an ominous foreboding. Ranjit propositions Sally; and offers her a house in the suburbs. Though Sally accepts, she does not accept his advances. And one fine day sells the house and decamps; only to surface later as a wealthy business woman, who beguiles and bewitches all. Meanwhile, Meena is rushed to the family maternity home where she gives birth to a baby girl. John is a picture of devotion to his daughter. Ranjit and John’s confrontation is becoming dangerous. John has learnt of Ranjit’s enchantment with Sally. Feelings are unsheathed; daggers shine in their eyes. The sharp blade of confrontation drips with blood. There can be no backing off –lines have been indelibly etched. Meena & her mother cower in terror.
Download or read book A Tryst With Destiny by Jeff Tikari written by Jeff Tikari and published by Jeff Tikari. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He would marry her he resolved. He would wait for her…she was about eight or nine now so he would wait until she finished her educationand then marry her, The wait would make him mature and stable – he was rich, now anyway. Perfect! Sameer studied the young girlas she flitted between guests: smiling, laughing, exulting in the attention she was receiving. He gazed at her slim arms, her dainty hands, her light smiling eyes, and her bountiful dark hair that cascaded down highlighting her fair skin. She was, in one word, lovely. Sameer’s parents had left him a substantial inheritance allowing him to live a leisurely life. He decided he would closely follow Tanya through puberty and into womanhood. If she satisfied the idol he had in his mind, he would marry her. No ‘Arranged Marriages’ for him – who would arrange it anyway?
Download or read book The Honey Gatherer by Jeff Tikari written by Jeff Tikari and published by Jeff Tikari. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE HONEY GATHERER - The story is set in a sparsely populated tract of the heavily forested foothills of the Himalayas: an area that lies roughly between India and Nepal and in places is virtually untouched. The ‘Forest People’ of this area have minimal contact with the outside world and dwell entirely in the forest living off its produce .These are the ‘Wild Honey Gatherers’ – a race almost extinct – they have strange ways and are rumored to possess the ability to communicate with birds and beasts. When encountered they fade into the forest shadows. Village people give them a wide berth fearing the strange occult or shaman powers they possess. ‘The forest Spirits protect them’ is a widely held belief. This story is about one such family...its secrets, its mystical powers, and its accord with nature. Written in a style that suits today’s fast-paced lifestyle where an elegance of words and precise sentences open up forest vistas that draw you into the lives and customs of the Honey Gatherers.
Download or read book To Sweeten Boredom written by Jeff Tikari and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-06-29 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven distinctive and enthralling short stories to lift and lighten you mood.Cleverly written and crafted with excellence.The stories are a joy to read
Download or read book Aroma of Orange Pekoe written by Jeff Tikari and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-07-07 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amusing and entertaining nostalgic incidents from the life of planters: Tea and Coffee, between 1959 and 1992 and covering NE India(Dooars and Assam)and Papua New Guinea.Planters and their families lived in remote areas of the country where they made their own entertainment and lived lavish lives in large bungalows.The Managers were considered minor Gods by the labor who held them in high esteem.A Managers word was 'law' and incontrovertible.
Download or read book The Honey Gatherer written by Jeff Tikari and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-07-07 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story is set in a sparsely populated tract of the heavily forested foothills of the Himalayas: an area that lies roughly between India and Nepal and in places is virtually untouched. The 'Forest People' of this area have minimal contact with the outside world and dwell all their lives in the forest living off its produce .These are the 'Wild Honey Gatherers' - a race almost extinct - they have strange ways and are rumoured to possess the ability to communicate with birds and beasts. When encountered they fade into the forest shadows. Village people give them a wide birth fearing the strange occult or shaman powers they possess. 'The forest Spirits protect them' is a widely held belief. This story is about one such family...its secrets, its mystical powers, and its accord with nature.
Download or read book Indian Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Then People Will Traffick written by Jeff Tikari and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Die Broke written by Stephen Pollan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From America's most trusted financial advisor comes a comprehensive guide to a new and utterly sane financial choice. In Die Broke, you'll learn that life is a game where the loser gives his money to Uncle Sam at the end. There are four steps to the process: Quit Today No, don't tell your boss to shove it...at least not out loud. But in your head accept that from this day on you're a free agent whose number one workplace priority is your personal bottom line. Pay Cash You should be as conscious of spending as you are of saving. Credit should be a rarely used tool for those few times (buying homes and cars) when paying cash is impossible. Don't Retire Your work life should be a journey up and down hills, rather than a climb up a sheer cliff that ends with a jump into the abyss. Die Broke It sounds terrifying, the one intolerable outcome to your financial life. And yet, in truth, dying broke might be your best option for a life without fear: fear of failure and privation now, fear of impoverishment in the long run.
Download or read book Conspiracy written by Ryan Holiday and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conspiracy theories are legion. Conspiracies are rare. And of the few that do exist, fewer are ever discovered, let alone explained. This story is the exception. In 2016, media giant Gawker was forced to declare bankruptcy after a $140 million dollar judgment in court over an illegally recorded sex tape of Hulk Hogan. The case was no accident: it was the result of a nearly decade-long plot masterminded by Facebook and Paypal billionaire Peter Thiel. With exclusive access to all the key players, Ryan Holiday takes us behind the scenes of this extraordinary and at times surreal story, and transforms the events into both a dissection of that controversial methodology - conspiracy - and an eye-opening cautionary tale on the use, abuse and consequences of power and secrecy in the modern age.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon written by Mark Dike DeLancey and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameroon is a country endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals, substantial forests, and a dynamic population. It is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. Although Cameroon has made economic progress since independence, it has not been able to change the dependent nature of its economy. The economic situation combined with the dismal record of its political history, indicate that prospects for political stability, justice, and prosperity are dimmer than they have been for most of the country's independent existence. The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon has been updated to reflect advances in the study of Cameroon's history as well as to provide coverage of the years since the last edition. It relates the turbulent history of Cameroon through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Cameroon history from the earliest times to the present.
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories written by Stephen Alter and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2001-10-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty classic short stories from master writers across the country This superb collection contains some of the best Indian short stories written in the last fifty years, both in English and in the regional languages. Some of these stories – ‘We Have Arrived in Amritsar’ by Bhisham Sahni, ‘Companions’ by Raja Rao, ‘The Sky and the Cat’ by U.R. Anantha Murthy, ‘A Devoted Son’ by Anita Desai – have been widely anthologized and are well known. Others, like Premendra Mitra’s ‘The Discovery of Telenapota’, Gangadhar Gadgil’s ‘The Dog that Ran in Circles’, Mowni’s ‘A Loss of Identity’, O.V. Vijayan’s ‘The Wart’ and Devanuru Mahadeva’s ‘Amasa’, are less familiar to readers but are nevertheless classics of the art of the short story. This new and revised edition includes three additional classics: R.K. Narayan’s ‘Another Community’, Avinash Dolas’s ‘The Victim’ and Ismat Chughtai’s ‘The Wedding Shroud’. The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories is a marvellous and entertaining introduction to the rich diversity of pleasures that the Indian short story–a form that has produced masters in over a dozen languages–can offer.
Download or read book The Lama Who Never Was written by Parshu Dahal and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lama Who Never Was features Parshu Dahals debut collection of eight short stories. His stories share one striking similarityAn unpredictable twist. Spinning twists are not only his forte. His inimitable knack for juxtaposing many social practices with oft-overlooked societal prejudices even against animals is very striking . In The River , The Narsingha Player, The Lama and the Sikkimese villager of yore, he explores deep relations humans develop with everything they come into contact withmusical instrument, animals, riverseverything. The Priesthood and The Niece are woven around two aspects of human emotionsbetrayal and remorse. The Lama who never was touches upon bed-wetting, a fairly common ailment amongst children that has a stigma attached to it. Raise your Standards is themed on the unbridled infidelity. Parshu Dahal weaves his stories around issues which could appear trivial and insignificant, hence often overlooked.
