Download or read book The Heart Is a Shifting Sea written by Elizabeth Flock and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Silver Nautilus Award for Journalism & Investigative Reporting "Elizabeth Flock takes us on an intimate cruise on the shifting sea of the heart, in the best book set in Bombay that I've read in years. Flock's total access to her characters, and her highly sympathetic and nonjudgmental gaze, prove that love and literature know no borders. Easily the most intimate account of India that I've read, and of value to anybody that believes in love and marriage."—Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City "This remarkable debut is so deeply reported, elegantly written, and profoundly transporting that it reads like a novel you can’t put down. It’s both a nuanced and intimate evocation of Indian culture, and a provocative and exciting meditation on marriage itself."—Katie Roiphe, author of The Violet Hour In the vein of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, an intimate, deeply reported and revelatory examination of love, marriage, and the state of modern India—as witnessed through the lives of three very different couples in today’s Mumbai. In twenty-first-century India, tradition is colliding with Western culture, a clash that touches the lives of everyday Indians from the wealthiest to the poorest. While ethnicity, class, and religion are influencing the nation’s development, so too are pop culture and technology—an uneasy fusion whose impact is most evident in the institution of marriage. The Heart Is a Shifting Sea introduces three couples whose relationships illuminate these sweeping cultural shifts in dramatic ways: Veer and Maya, a forward-thinking professional couple whose union is tested by Maya’s desire for independence; Shahzad and Sabeena, whose desperation for a child becomes entwined with the changing face of Islam; and Ashok and Parvati, whose arranged marriage, made possible by an online matchmaker, blossoms into true love. Though these three middle-class couples are at different stages in their lives and come from diverse religious backgrounds, their stories build on one another to present a layered, nuanced, and fascinating mosaic of the universal challenges, possibilities, and promise of matrimony in its present state. Elizabeth Flock has observed the evolving state of India from inside Mumbai, its largest metropolis. She spent close to a decade getting to know these couples—listening to their stories and living in their homes, where she was privy to countless moments of marital joy, inevitable frustration, dramatic upheaval, and whispered confessions and secrets. The result is a phenomenal feat of reportage that is both an enthralling portrait of a nation in the midst of transition and an unforgettable look at the universal mysteries of love and marriage that connect us all.
Download or read book Love Mumbai written by Fiona Caulfield and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This must-have guide series to India is packed with savvy insider knowledge. The best experiences in India are hidden in the narrow lanes of the old city where the five-star chef eats on his day off. They are in the home studios of designers and the workshops of seventh generation craftsmen. The highly successful Love Travel Guides series is the only luxury travel guide series dedicated to India. Entries are personally sourced from in-the-know locals including chefs and fishermen, artists and architects, writers and taxi drivers, before being personally tested. All information presented made it there under one simple criterion: if it makes you fall in love with the city, it is included in this book; otherwise it's out. Each book is divided into various sections such as: Musts; Delicious; Fabulous; Gorgeous; Adventurous; Wildly Adventurous; Essential; and Share With Love. Completely hand-made, each guide is lovingly bound using old Indian paper making techniques and covered with khadi, the fabric of India's independence. Truly unique in its presentation and style, these are beautifully presented guides for the independent-minded traveller with time to spare and money to spend.
Download or read book Love and Longing in Bombay written by Vikram Chandra and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in contemporary India, Love and Longing in Bombay confirms Vikram Chandra as one of today's most exciting young writers. In five haunting tales he paints a remarkable picture of Bombay - its ghosts, its passions, its feuds, its mysteries - while exploring timeless questions of the human spirit. 'When Midnight's Children first arrived on the scene, it became necessary to revaluate stories from and about India. With Vikram Chandra's collection - his second book - it is time to take stock again . . . Breathtaking.' Observer
Download or read book Love Mumbai written by Fiona Caulfield and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE LOVE DROP OF ETERNITY written by SAGAR A. GHOTEKAR and published by Pencil. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Love Drop of Eternity," fate intertwines the lives of two strangers who meet on a train and instantly feel an unexplainable connection. A new beginning their master's degrees in the bustling city of Mumbai, their paths cross once again. With every passing day, their bond deepens, rooted in a friendship as unbreakable as the strongest of ties. Yet both are haunted by the fear of confessing their blossoming love, afraid that it may shatter the harmony they have found. As time slips through their fingers, love glows, Will they find the courage to brave the unknown and reveal the depths of their true feelings? "The Love Drop of Eternity" unveils a tale of pure hearts, that will captivate readers to follow their heart. The Book also have some masala of Short Story, Poems and Quotes
Download or read book From Screens to Streets A Love Story of Snapchat Mumbai and Forever written by Ranjot Singh Chahal and published by Rana Books Uk . This book was released on 2024-04-21 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "From Screens to Streets," embark on a heartwarming journey of love that transcends the boundaries of distance, culture, and time. Follow the captivating tale of Ishaan and Ruchita as their serendipitous encounter on Snapchat leads them on an unforgettable adventure from virtual connections to real-life romance. As their love blossoms across continents, immerse yourself in the vibrant tapestry of Mumbai's bustling streets and the charming landscapes of Wales. Experience the thrill of their digital courtship as they navigate the challenges of long-distance love, bridging the gap between Mumbai mornings and Cardiff evenings with unwavering determination and boundless affection. Witness the cultural convergence of two souls as they exchange stories, traditions, and dreams, finding solace in the beauty of their differences and the richness of their shared experiences. Join them on their journey as they navigate the complexities of time zones and distance, learning each other's languages of love and forging a bond that knows no boundaries. From virtual dates to real-life adventures, "From Screens to Streets" captures the essence of modern romance in a world where love knows no limits. With every page, discover the power of love to overcome obstacles, defy expectations, and transform lives in ways that are as unexpected as they are unforgettable. Experience the magic of Ishaan and Ruchita's love story as they embark on a journey from screens to streets, weaving a tapestry of love, laughter, and happily ever after that will capture your heart and leave you believing in the power of love to conquer all.
Download or read book Mumbai New York Scranton written by Tamara Shopsin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinarily moving memoir from an iconoclastic new talent—an artist, cook, and illustrator whose adventures at home and abroad reveal the importance of living life with your eyes wide open. Best known for her witty illustrations, and as a cook beside her mischievous father in her family’s legendary Manhattan restaurant, in Mumbai New York Scranton, Tamara Shopsin offers a brilliantly inventive, spare, and elegant chronicle of a year in her life characterized by impermanence. In a refreshingly original voice alternating between tender and brazen, Shopsin recounts a trip to the Far East with her sidekick husband and the harrowing adventure that unfolds when she comes home. Entire worlds, deep relationships, and indelible experiences are portrayed in Shopsin’s deceptively simple and sparse language and drawings. Blending humor, love, suspense—and featuring photographs by Jason Fulford—Mumbai New York Scranton inspires a kaleidoscope of emotions. Shopsin’s surprising and affecting tale will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Download or read book Castaway Mountain written by Saumya Roy and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *One of NPR's "Books We Love 2021"* "'I came to see the mountains as an outpouring of our modern lives,' Roy writes, 'of the endless chase for our desires to fill us.' Readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers will be drawn to this harrowing portrait." —Publishers Weekly "Castaway Mountain deserves every accolade. A stunning achievement." —Kiran Desai, Booker Prize Winner, author of Inheritance of Loss. All of Mumbai’s possessions and memories come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. Towering at the outskirts of the city, the mountains are covered in a faint smog from trash fires. Over time, as wealth brought Bollywood knock offs, fast food and plastics to Mumbaikars, a small, forgotten community of migrants and rag-pickers came to live at the mountains’ edge, making a living by re-using, recycling and re-selling. Among them is Farzana Ali Shaikh, a tall, adventurous girl who soon becomes one of the best pickers in her community. Over time, her family starts to fret about Farzana’s obsessive relationship to the garbage. Like so many in her community, Farzana, made increasingly sick by the trash mountains, is caught up in the thrill of discovery—because among the broken glass, crushed cans, or even the occasional dead baby, there’s a lingering chance that she will find a treasure to lift her family’s fortunes. As Farzana enters adulthood, her way of life becomes more precarious. Mumbai is pitched as a modern city, emblematic of the future of India, forcing officials to reckon with closing the dumping grounds, which would leave the waste pickers more vulnerable than ever. In a narrative instilled with superstition and magical realism, Saumya Roy crafts a modern parable exploring the consequences of urban overconsumption. A moving testament to the impact of fickle desires, Castaway Mountain reveals that when you own nothing, you know where true value lies: in family, community and love. Interior map illustration copyright (c) Jake Coolidge
Download or read book Mumbai Underdog written by Gaurav Garg and published by Gaurav Garg. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the depths of Mumbai's slums, a boy named Arjun dared to dream. He wouldn't just survive; he would rise. Cunning would be his weapon, the city's corrupt heart his battlefield. He vowed to shatter the old order, to become the master, not the pawn. Yet, the path to power is paved with ambition's ashes. Alliances twist and betrayals bloom amidst the chaos. Arjun's enemies multiply: ruthless gangsters, the remnants of a shattered Syndicate, and a cold-blooded Russian mafia seeking to sink its claws into the city's misery. Blood will flow. Ideals will crumble. In this desperate underworld war, Arjun will become the monster he once despised, or a forgotten corpse in the gutter. Mumbai demands a ruler, be it a tyrant or a tombstone. One question burns: Will Arjun ignite the city in his relentless climb, or will the flames of his ambition consume him entirely?
Download or read book Maximum City written by Suketu Mehta and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks. As each individual story unfolds, Mehta also recounts his own efforts to make a home in Bombay after more than twenty years abroad. Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, Maximum City is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.
Download or read book The Chronicles of Mumbai written by Gairika Mitra and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was something about the high rises that appealed to her particularly. Sometimes, she�d wonder whether those high rises had a heart since they were a witness to so much happening around. She would look at them, and just ponder deeply about their existence, her existence, and where she belonged in this naked world. She continued contemplating and looking at those buildings when her eyes rested on the most simple, dilapidated one where Alex Ford worked. She always felt an undiscovered, and unjustified attraction towards that building. Even though it was a high rise, this building was designed differently and was in no way similar to one of those typical architectural skyscrapers that filled the whole of New York. There was something special about this that no words or adjectives could substantiate� The tip of the building resembled a cone that went steeper and sharper towards its vertex. Whenever she felt exhausted from the day�s work or the times when she�d be losing her motivation to slog , she�d just be staring at the cone, trying to decipher its meaning. Her eyes would move in oscillatory, linear and circulatory movements and she�d notice the caricatures even more minutely. What amazed her the most was that no one design was identical to the other. Somewhere they appeared a little cylindrical, and in some places, elliptical. Looking at them, and studying them deeply, Shan could say that each of them had a story to tell.
Download or read book No Presents Please written by Jayant Kaikini and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Rohinton Mistry, as well as Lorrie Moore and George Saunders, here are stories on the pathos and comedy of small–town migrants struggling to build a life in the big city, with the dream world of Bollywood never far away. Jayant Kaikini’s gaze takes in the people in the corners of Mumbai—a bus driver who, denied vacation time, steals the bus to travel home; a slum dweller who catches cats and sells them for pharmaceutical testing; a father at his wit’s end who takes his mischievous son to a reform institution. In this metropolis, those who seek find epiphanies in dark movie theaters, the jostle of local trains, and even in roadside keychains and lost thermos flasks. Here, in the shade of an unfinished overpass, a factory–worker and her boyfriend browse wedding invitations bearing wealthy couples’ affectations—”no presents please”—and look once more at what they own. Translated from the Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana, these resonant stories, recently awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, take us to photo framers, flower markets, and Irani cafes, revealing a city trading in fantasies while its strivers, eating once a day and sleeping ten to a room, hold secret ambitions close.
Download or read book Meet Me in Mumbai written by Sabina Khan and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali and Zara Hossain Is Here. Ayesha is on her own, far from home, when she's faced with a choice that will change her life forever. Ayesha is a world away from home when she meets the boy of her dreams. Like her, Suresh is from India but going to high school in Illinois. Once they get together, they are inseparable... until a twist of fate takes Suresh back to India right when Ayesha discovers she's pregnant. Suddenly she feels she's on her own, navigating the biggest decision she'll ever make. Seventeen years later, Ayesha's daughter Mira finds an old box with letters addressed to her from her birth mother. Although Mira loves the moms who adopted her, she's intrigued to discover something more about her history. In one letter, Ayesha writes that if Mira can forgive her for what she had to do, she should find a way to travel to India for her eighteenth birthday and meet her. Mira knows she'll always regret it if she doesn't go. But is she actually ready for what she will learn? From the author of the "heart-wrenching yet hopeful" (Samira Ahmed) novel, The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali, comes a timely story about two teenage girls forced to understand the power and consequences of their choices.
Download or read book Bombay written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Finding Heaven A Novel written by Talena Winters and published by My Secret Wish Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes to find heaven, you have to go through hell… Sarah appears to have the perfect life—she’s made sure of it. But behind the façade, her respected lawyer husband abuses her, she hates writing the books that have made her a success, and she is tortured by demons from her childhood. When she receives a cancer diagnosis, her carefully constructed lies begin to crumble. Then she has a chance encounter with a compassionate humanitarian named Steve, who is everything she’s never known—selfless, honourable, and supportive. But even though he keeps showing up right when she needs him, she couldn’t possibly deserve the undemanding love he offers. Besides, a good-looking single guy like him must be hiding something, just like everyone else. Can Sarah be saved, or is it too late for her to find heaven? Finding Heaven is a standalone gripping emotional page-turner about second chances and redemptive love. Download to start your journey today! "One of the most beautifully written books I have read." - Kristin Dyck, editor of Mile Zero News "A riveting, true-to-life tale of love's power to heal and redeem." - Melissa Keaster, author of Eleora "A moving and beautiful story of accepting who you are, overcoming the past, and embracing the future." - Kamber Ferriss, reader "One of the most beautifully written books I have read." - Kristin Dyck, editor of Mile Zero News "A riveting, true-to-life tale of love's power to heal and redeem." - Melissa Keaster, author of Eleora "A moving and beautiful story of accepting who you are, overcoming the past, and embracing the future." - Kamber Ferriss, reader Content Levels: Sensuality - 2/5: non-graphic kissing, non-graphic fantasizing Violence - 3/5: sexual & physical assault, verbal & emotional abuse Language - 3/5: moderate profanity Intense themes - 4/5: domestic violence, childhood sexual abuse, human trafficking Equivalent movie rating: 18A Also by Talena Winters: CONTEMPORARY ROMANTIC FICTION: Standalone: The Friday Night Date Dress Peace Country Romance series: Every Star That Shines (Book 1) Every Bell that Rings (Book 2) In the same world, heartwarming family fiction: All I Want for Christmas (novelette) Keywords: romance stories; romance novels; happily ever after; healing from abuse; romantic women's fiction; love stories; second-chance romance; inspirational romance; city romance; romantic Christian fiction; psychological suspense; domestic suspense; humanitarian; Canadian fiction; books set in Canada; novels about writers; novels about sex trafficking; romance books;
Download or read book The Shifting Role of Women written by Vivek Kumar Dwivedi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the torturous journey of women from being confined within the limits of the house to being a “major voice” in society. It also highlights scenarios in which women have been discriminated against throughout history. This work will help in reconfiguring the set standards, values, and parameters by which women are judged in society. It foregrounds its studies by examining literary texts, case studies, and popular practices, showing how the era of social media has tacitly brought about the suffragette movement of the 21st century.
Download or read book A Dilli Mumbai Love Story written by Abhimanyu Jha, and published by Sristhi Publishers & Distributors. This book was released on 2012 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abhimanyu (Abhi) writes about men and women falling in love, and then running into people who wouldn’t let them live happily ever after. While also running Talent Bridge, www.talentbridge.co.in, he plans to write more till the world needs such saving, catch him @ abhimanyujha.com, Twitter (4abhimanyu), facebook.com/4abhimanyu or [email protected].
