Download or read book Last Train To Mumbai written by Arun Nair and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-10-17 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vaishak, a computer engineer, lands in Kochi from Dubai on March 19, 2020, just three days before the Janta Curfew, with many things to do before taking the Duronto Express to Mumbai the same evening to meet his love, Revathy. He was supposed to leave back in a week. During the day, he had planned to catch up with his hostel roommates, Sudeep and Cherian, and also meet the person for whom he had purposefully made this visit from Dubai. He also wanted to meet Ajay Sethuraman in this visit, to whom he had sold his large rubber estate a few years back in order to pay for blood money and save his mother from being hanged in Saudi Arabia. His friends and old associates don’t know who he is now, and his current associates don’t know his past. However, the train journey doesn’t turn up the way Vaishak had planned. He finds his past and present intertwining with each other and comes haunting after him in the journey. He wasn’t ready to give up and ensures that the truth shall find its way, and he does what he was best at – he was a cryptocurrency miner.

Download or read book Mumbai and Goa Time Out written by Editors of Time Out and published by Time Out Guides. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chaotic, 13-million-strong melting pot of ethnic groups from all over India, Mumbai is India's economic engine and home to the world's largest film industry. 600 kilometres away, the golden beaches of Goa feel like another country. Drawing on insider expertise, this book discusses both locales.

Download or read book Mumbai Noir written by Altaf Tyrewala and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The stories in this noir anthology are as raw and diverse as the city of Mumbai itself, humming with the feel for the city’s pulse and patter.” —The National Today Mumbai is like any other Asian city on the rise, with gigantic construction cranes winding atop upcoming skyscrapers and malls. Right-wing violence, failing electricity and water supplies, overcrowding, and the ever-looming threat of terrorist attacks—these are some of the gruesome realities that Mumbai’s middle and working classes must deal with every day, while the city’s super-rich zip from roof to roof in their private choppers. Abandoned by its wealthy, mistreated by its politicians and administrators, Mumbai continues to thrive primarily because of the helpless resilience of its hardworking, upright citizens. The stories in Mumbai Noir depict the many ways in which the city’s ever-present shadowy aspects often force themselves onto the lives of ordinary people. What emerges is the sense of a city that, despite its new name and triumphant tryst with capitalism, is yet to heal from the wounds of the communal riots of the 1990s and from all the subsequent acts of havoc wreaked within its precincts by both local and outside forces. Mumbai Noir features stories by: Annie Zaidi, R. Raj Rao, Abbas Tyrewala, Avtar Singh, Ahmed Bunglowala, Smita Harish Jain, Sonia Faleiro, Altaf Tyrewala, Namita Devidayal, Jerry Pinto, Kalpish Ratna, Riaz Mulla, Paromita Vohra, and Devashish Makhija.

Download or read book Who s Dead written by Col. Shashank Kaushal and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every life is a story; extraordinary stories of ordinary men and women. They work in small offices, study in ordinary schools and do very ordinary things, but their stories of love are far beyond our imagination. Fate twists their life and brings them to unexpected crossroads. What separates them from the pack is the choice they exercise. The grandmother at Ramban and the Irish girl at Rajasthan had one thing common: their choice. Ammi at Ladakh and the girl at Delhi had the same fate but different choices. Stories inspire all of us. A routine life can be turned into extraordinary by making the right choice. This book is about all of us who have thousands of stories to be woven in future and the choices that we will make.

Download or read book Last Train To Mumbai written by Arun Nair and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vaishak, a computer engineer, lands in Kochi from Dubai on March 19, 2020, just three days before the Janta Curfew, with many things to do before taking the Duronto Express to Mumbai the same evening to meet his love, Revathy. He was supposed to leave back in a week. During the day, he had planned to catch up with his hostel roommates, Sudeep and Cherian, and also meet the person for whom he had purposefully made this visit from Dubai. He also wanted to meet Ajay Sethuraman in this visit, to whom he had sold his large rubber estate a few years back in order to pay for blood money and save his mother from being hanged in Saudi Arabia. His friends and old associates don't know who he is now, and his current associates don't know his past. However, the train journey doesn't turn up the way Vaishak had planned. He finds his past and present intertwining with each other and comes haunting after him in the journey. He wasn't ready to give up and ensures that the truth shall find its way, and he does what he was best at - he was a cryptocurrency miner.

Download or read book 10 Minutes To Creativity written by K. R. Ravi and published by St Pauls BYB. This book was released on with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Engmawi written by Stephan C. Hmar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Engmawi, a village girl from the North East, is hired as a hostess in Hotel Alpha by Abhay, her joy is inexplicable. However, what she doesn’t know is that Abhay is a gangster, a sex-maniac, the son-in-law of a powerful don Rocky and the son of Dhruv, who’ll do anything to take revenge. Naive but pure-hearted, Engmawi is shocked to find the real intention of Abhay right from the first day at the hotel. The more she keeps her distance, the more it makes him want her. Engmawi’s world suddenly takes a terrifying turn when she witnesses Dhruv killing Damodar. Though Dan, her crazy lover, saves her life from Dhruv’s men, Engmawi has no choice. She needs to work and earn for her poor parents back in the village. Despite warnings from Sharon D’souza, Abhay’s girlfriend, that her life is in danger, Engmawi chooses her way and lands in a trap of kidnap, rape and murder. Who’ll save her from the bad guys? Will she ever see her parents again?

Download or read book Mumbai Bombay written by Sujata Patel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mumbai / Bombay is a quintessential urban expression which represents the questions and puzzles related to Indian urbanity. This book traces the various ways through which majoritarianism and neoliberal capitalist accumulation has reorganised Bombay or Mumbai in India. The book assesses Mumbai’s present trajectories and processes as being embedded in its recent past. It looks at these changes by exploring work and labour; health and education; spatial planning and infrastructural development; politics and identity; and shows how financialisation, land speculation, deregulation, and informality have impacted the city’s culture and everyday living. The contributors to this volume analyse the consequences of these changes for women and men across ages, as they live their material and cultural lives; evaluate the role of the changing nature of work, urban infrastructure, and planning; determine its outcome for public health and education; and take a measure of its manifestation in the field of arts and culture. The volume explores the processes that reorient these changes, the socio-spatial and political implications of these on the inhabitants of the city, and the resistance and response to marginalisation. This interdisciplinary volume will interest students and researchers of economics, sociology, anthropology, political science, public policy, development studies, and urban studies. It will also be useful to urban practitioners, planners, bureaucrats, activists, and general readers.

Download or read book Around India in 80 Trains written by Monisha Rajesh and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Crackles and sparks with life like an exploding box of Diwali fireworks." -- William Dalrymple In 1991, Monisha Rajesh's family uprooted from Sheffield to Madras in the hope of making India their home. Two years later, fed up with soap-eating rats, severed human heads and the creepy colonel across the road, they returned to England with a bitter taste in their mouths. Two decades on, she turns to a map of the Indian Railways and takes a page out of Jules Verne's classic tale, embarking on an adventure around India in 80 trains, covering 40,000 km - the circumference of the Earth. She hopes that 80 train journeys up, down and across India will lift the veil on a country that has become a stranger to her. Along the way, Monisha discovers that the Indian Railways - featuring luxury trains, toy trains, Mumbai's infamous commuter trains, and even a hospital on wheels - have more than a few stories to tell, not to mention a colourful cast of characters. And with a self-confessed "militant devout atheist" in tow, her personal journey around a country built on religion isn't quite what she bargained for...

Download or read book The Itinerant Indian written by Aruna Nambiar and published by unisun publications. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilarious, heart warming, irreverent. Unusual travelogues: of war protests in Oxford and irate camels in Oman. Balladas in Brasil and burqas on the beach in Bangladesh. Stories of adventure and discovery, of nostalgia and novelty, of mishaps and misery, of confusion and comedy.

Download or read book The Front Page Murders written by Puja Changoiwala and published by Hachette India. This book was released on 2016-12-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It takes a fearless mind to harbour such a dark heart, a heart that knows no nobility, no apology? Mumbai, April 2012. The gruesome murder of a senior citizen in a wealthy Mumbai neighbourhood leads the city?s Crime Branch to unearth several half-naked, mutilated and dismembered bodies rotting in the ravines of the Western Ghats on the outskirts of the city. A trail of missing suspects, a lethal honey-trap, and unexpected links with Mumbai?s film industry and the underworld, brings the investigators ? and the press, ever hungry for breaking news ? to Vijay Palande, a cold-blooded killer equipped with the sophistication of Charles Sobhraj, the manipulative genius of Ted Bundy and the cruelty of Jack the Ripper. In The Front Page Murders, Puja Changoiwala, who covered the incidents as they unfolded, recounts in gripping detail the story behind the sensational case of multiple murders that shocked the country. Startling and intensely sobering by turns, her compelling narrative explores not just the murky depths of a serial killer?s mind but, tellingly, the media?s frenzy for a juicy story and the insatiable human appetite for horror.

Download or read book FOUNDATIONS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE A COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION written by Dr. Smriti Pareek and published by Thakur Publication Private Limited. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e-Books for the first semester of all undergraduate courses in the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, following the syllabus in accordance with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, including skill enhancement courses, have been published by Thakur Publication Pvt. Ltd.

Download or read book Transforming Asian Cities written by Nihal Perera and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there is no lack of studies on Asian cities, the majority focus on financial districts, poverty, the slum, tradition, tourism, and pollution, and use the modern, affluent, and transforming Western city as the reference point. This vast Asian empirical presence is not complemented by a theoretical presence; academic discourses overlook common and basic urban processes, particularly the production of space, place, and identity by ordinary citizens. Switching thevantage point to Asian cities and citizens, Transforming Asian Cities draws attention to how Asians produce their contemporary urban practices, identities, and spaces as part of resisting, responding to, andavoiding larger global and national processes. Instead of viewing Asian cities in opposition to the Western city andusing it as the norm, this book instead opts to provincialize mainstream and traditional knowledge. It argues that the vast terrain of ordinary actors and spaces which are currently left out should be reflected in academic debates and policy decisions, and the local thinking processes that constitute these spaces need to be acknowledged, enabled, and critiqued. The individual chapters illustrate that "global" spaces are more (trans)local, traditional environments are more modern, and Asian spaces are better defined than acknowledged. The aim is to develop room for understandings of Asian cities from Asian standpoints, especially acknowledging how Asians observe, interpret, understand, and create space in their cities.

Download or read book The Mumbai Factfile written by Derek O'Brien and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2003 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On miscellaneous facts about the city of Bombay, India.

Download or read book The Great Indian Railways written by Arup K. Chatterjee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following an experimental railway track at Chintadripet, in 1835, the battle for India's first railroad was fought bitterly between John Chapman's Great Indian Peninsular Railway and Rowland MacDonald Stephenson's East India Railway Company, which was merged with Dwarkanauth Tagore's Great Western of Bengal Railway. Even at the height of the Mutiny of 1857, Bahadur Shah Zafar promised Indian owned railway tracks for native merchants if Badshahi rule was restored in Delhi. From Jules Verne to Rudyard Kipling to Mark Twain to Rabindranath Tagore to Nirad C. Chaudhuri to R.K. Narayan and Ruskin Bond-the aura of Indian trains and railway stations have enchanted many writers and poets. With iconic cinematography from The Apu Trilogy, Aradhana, Sonar Kella, Sholay, Gandhi, Dil Se, Parineeta, Barfi, Gangs of Wasseypur, and numerous others, Indian cinema has paved the way for mythical railroads in the national psyche. The Great Indian Railways takes us on a historic adventure through many junctions of India's hidden railway legends, for the first time in a book replete with anecdotes from imperial politics, European and Indian accounts, the battlefronts of the Indian nationalist movement, Indian cinema, songs, advertisements, and much more, in an ever-expanding cultural biography of the Great Indian Railways. Dubbed as 'one of a kind' this awe-inspiring saga is 'compulsive reading.' 'In this fascinating cultural history, Arup K Chatterjee charts the extraordinary journey of the Indian Railways, from the laying of the very first sleeper to the first post-Independence bogey. It evokes our collective accumulation of those innumerable memories of platform chai and rail-gaadi stories, bringing alive through myriad voices and tales the biography of one of India's defining public institutions.' – Shashi Tharoor, Author, M.P., Lok Sabha 'The Great Indian Railways is a fascinating and well-researched cultural biography of the Indian Railways-those intricate arteries of the soul of India, as have been experienced, written, filmed, and dreamed. We cannot all travel by rail to know India, as Gandhiji did, but we can and should read this book!' – Tabish Khair, Author, Professor

Download or read book Lotus Brahma written by Aparna and Nalin Singh Bharti and Sunil Girdhar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-08-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2030, as disaster looms, only Siddharth, armed with the mystical Sanjeevani Yantra, can save the world. Inheriting an unfinished quest, he embarks on a voyage through turbulent times and the seven Lokas. Alongside him is his soulmate, a woman, whose love endures through every trial. As the mystery of the 2000 years of history unfolds, revealing incredulous and cryptic secrets, Siddharth finds himself at a precipice. His only redemption now is to dive in to an ineffable abyss of events to save humanity from an impending apocalypse... the stakes are set and his journey unknown…

Download or read book Storylines Telling Movies in Words written by Zubie Saurabh SenGupta and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man lives among eunuchs for the sake of his family. A couple breaks the law to live a dream. A woman finds herself while helping others. Storylines - Telling Movies in Words is a collection of seven such thoughtful and soul-stirring tales that show how stories for films are actually born.