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 Laugh Like a Dog written by Jeff Tikari and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-12-05 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Rai, a young Anglo-Indian boy on a Christian Scholarship to an upper class college, meets and weds Meena, daughter of Ranjit Rowal, a rich and powerful industrialist. The story details the abuse and insults thrown at John and his friend,Tom.Of Rowal's infatuation and lust for Sally (Tom's young sister)and both family's struggles,foibles, suspicion and distrust.
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 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 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 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 To Sweeten Boredom written by Jeff Tikari and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-10-23 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crisp, gripping and entertaining short stories that will infuse joy and pleasure to your leisure hours.Un-put-downable stories.
Download or read book Laugh Like a Dog written by Jeff Tikari and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping story that relates the life and foibles of a young, handsome, Anglo-Indian boy whose scholarship to an exclusive and expensive college draws him into an intimate relationship with the daughter of a rich and influential Hindu industrialist. Two distinct Indian cultures are foisted in conflicting contact. The story details the antagonism and intolerance the families have to overcome.
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 The Jewish Genocide of Armenian Christians written by Christopher Jon Bjerknes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1905, Jewish leaders calling themselves "Young Turks" met in Masonic lodges in Salonika, Italy, Paris and Vienna. They plotted a coup d'etat against the Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II. Jews and crypto-Jewish Doenmeh of the Committee for Union and Progress took over complete control of the Turkish Empire in 1909. They had several goals. Their primary objective was to establish a segregated "Jewish State" in Palestine. They also sought to instigate World War I, to slaughter entire Christian populations, and to destroy the Turkish Empire and supplant Islamic religion and culture with a soulless and cultureless society engineered by Jewish positivists in Vienna, Paris, Italy and Salonika. This is their story.
Download or read book Lightning Striking written by Lenny Kaye and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We have performed side-by-side on the global stage through half a century…. In Lightning Striking, Lenny Kaye has illuminated ten facets of the jewel called rock and roll from a uniquely personal and knowledgeable perspective.” –Patti Smith An insider’s take on the evolution and enduring legacy of the music that rocked the twentieth century Memphis 1954. New Orleans 1957. Philadelphia 1959. Liverpool 1962. San Francisco 1967. Detroit 1969. New York, 1975. London 1977. Los Angeles 1984 / Norway 1993. Seattle 1991. Rock and roll was birthed in basements and garages, radio stations and dance halls, in cities where unexpected gatherings of artists and audience changed and charged the way music is heard and celebrated, capturing lightning in a bottle. Musician and writer Lenny Kaye explores ten crossroads of time and place that define rock and roll, its unforgettable flashpoints, characters, and visionaries; how each generation came to be; how it was discovered by the world. Whether describing Elvis Presley’s Memphis, the Beatles’ Liverpool, Patti Smith’s New York, or Kurt Cobain’s Seattle, Lightning Striking reveals the communal energy that creates a scene, a guided tour inside style and performance, to see who’s on stage, along with the movers and shakers, the hustlers and hangers-on--and why everybody is listening. Grandly sweeping and minutely detailed, informed by Kaye’s acclaimed knowledge and experience as a working musician, Lightning Striking is an ear-opening insight into our shared musical and cultural history, a magic carpet ride of rock and roll’s most influential movements and moments.
Download or read book She Shed a Tear written by Jeff Tikari and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: love between a Hindu boy and a college going Muslim girl. A trip to Goa changes the story to deep and dangerous illicit love.
Download or read book The Last Great Ape written by Ofir Drori and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of an adventurer-turned-warrior fighting poachers and traffickers to protect animals from extinction. Staging heart-pounding, espionage-style raids, Ofir Drori and his organization, The Last Great Ape (LAGA), have put countless poachers and traffickers of endangered species behind bars, and they have fought back against a Kafkaesque culture of corruption. Before Ofir arrived in Cameroon, no one had ever even tried. The Last Great Ape follows a young Ofir on fantastical adventures as he crosses remote African lands by camel, on a horse, and in dug-out canoes, while living with exotic tribes and struggling against nature at its rawest: charging elephants and hyenas, flash floods, and the need to eat river algae and snails to stay alive. The story moves from places of extreme beauty to those of the darkest horror: the war zones of Sierra Leone and Liberia. Ofir begins to work as a photojournalist in order to expose his shocking encounter with war victims and child soldiers. His experiences forge in him a resolution to become an activist and to fight for justice. The search for a cause eventually leads him to Cameroon. When Ofir discovers that no one is fighting to disprove Jane Goodall's dark prophesy that apes in the wild will be extinct in twenty years, he decides that he is the man to step in; because he knows he can make a difference, he sees it as his responsibility. And LAGA is born. The Last Great Ape is a story of the fight against extinction and the tragedy of endangered worlds, not just of animals but of people struggling to hold onto their culture. This book reveals the intense beauty and strife that exist side by side in Africa, and Ofir makes the case that activism and dedication to a cause are still relevant in a cynical modern world. This dangerous and dramatic story is one of courage and hope and, most importantly, a search for meaning.
Download or read book The Garden and the Fire written by Nerina Rustomji and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islamic conceptions of heaven and hell began in the seventh century as an early doctrinal innovation, but by the twelfth century, these notions had evolved into a highly formalized ideal of perfection. In tracking this transformation, Nerina Rustomji reveals the distinct material culture and aesthetic vocabulary Muslims developed to understand heaven and hell and identifies the communities and strategies of defense that took shape around the promise of a future world. Ideas of the afterworld profoundly influenced daily behaviors in Islamic society and gave rise to a code of ethics that encouraged abstinence from sumptuous objects, such as silver vessels and silk, so they could be appreciated later in heaven. Rustomji conducts a meticulous study of texts and images and carefully connects the landscape and social dynamics of the afterworld with earthly models and expectations. Male servants and female companions become otherworldly objects in the afterlife, and stories of rewards and punishment helped preachers promote religious reform. By employing material culture as a method of historical inquiry, Rustomji points to the reflections, discussions, and constructions that actively influenced Muslims' picture of the afterworld, culminating in a distinct religious aesthetic.
Download or read book Sex Museums written by Jennifer Tyburczy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museums have lengthy history, going back to the Renaissance Cabinets of Curiosity, and they are indices of changing fashions of perception insofar as the categories museum curators use to classify objects change over time. The major focus of Tyburczy s study is sexuality on display, which sets up, in turn, her investigation of the effects of museum display on the history of sexuality. Historical context for the museum is one of her themes (and how categories of normacly and perversity change over time), with another themes being the work of sex museums n redefining what sex means in the modern public sphere; she also folds in consideration of the pleasures and dangers of exhibiting marginalized sexual subjects (women, nonwhite races, LGBT individuals, and the like); last, she explores the paradox of asserting (as she does) that all museums are sex museums bodies move around and toward objects on display, they reshape the typical dances of museum-goers along with their preconscious motivations in visiting a museum. She proposes that explicit display or restagings of sexual artifacts provides new ways for approaching and understanding issues of desire, sexual identity, and sexual practices as they intersect with the history of the modern museum and with sexual history during the past two centuries. Her fieldwork sites are: the Leather Archives & Museum in Chicago, the Museum of Sex in New York, the World Erotic Art Museum in Miami Beach, and El Museo del Sexo in Mexico City. Such institutions allow Tyburczy to show how alternative sexuality (inclusive of kink, fetish, and sadomasochistic cultures) and slavery dangerously crisscross on the surface of objects. There are plenty of cases here, in short, to keep the casual reader titillated and the erudite reader surprised."
Download or read book Breathless in Bombay written by Murzban F. Shroff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shroff's vibrant narratives in this concept collection of 14 stories set in contemporary Bombay feature a range of beautifully drawn characters in fascinating situations: from the laundrywallas' water shortage problems, to the doomed love affair of a schizophrenic painter and his Bollywood girlfriend, to the wandering thoughts of a massagewalla at Chowpatty Beach, to the heart-warming relationship of a carriage driver and his beloved horse.
Download or read book Contemporary Zoroastrians written by Rashna Writer and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary Zoroastrians are, arguably, the world's smallest religious-ethnic group. In this book, Writer examines the two major constituent groups, Parsi and Iranian Zoroastrians and analyzes the diversity as well as the unifying features specific among them. Writer enhances her theoretical framework with extensive interviews with the living community, conducted on three continentsóAsia, Europe, and North America. Contents: Historical Background. Zoroastrian Antecendents; Parsi Migration and Acclimation in India; The Zoroastrians of Iran. Disparate Cultures: Parsi and Iranian Zoroastrians; The Contemporary Political Mileux: Iran and India; Present Day Community Shibboleths and Legal Precedents. Intermarriage; Conversation; The Parsi Pancyayat Case Suite No. 689 of 1906 in the High Court of Bombay; Zoroastrians in the Old Countries The Parsis of India and Pakistan: An Introduction; The Parsis of India; The Parsis of Pakistan; Iranian Zoroastrian Refugees; Zoroastrians of the Diaspora. The Zoroastrians of North America: USA and Canada; The Zorastrians of Great Britain; Contemporary Zoroastrians: An Unstructured Nation? Maps throughout.
