Download or read book SHAHNAZ AND OTHER STORIES written by Vaishali Ghosh and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gul, Reshma, Shahnaz, Jasmine, and a handful more are a bunch of women fueled by shiny hope and bound by compelling narratives. Shahnaz and Other Stories maps the lives of nine women from dramatically different worlds, each challenged by extraordinary circumstances. A young woman journeys across continents in search of the missing jigsaw piece from her past that will shape her identity. Another yearns to be reunited with her family, until one fateful day when she comes face to face with the person who abandoned her. A third has her dreams ground to the dust, betrayed by her true love. What is the one twist of fate that will visit each of these nine women? Will they rise above their difficult destinies? Vaishali Ghosh’s riveting storytelling packs these women’s narratives with cinematic drama and emotion, guaranteed to leave a lump in your throat. -Rajeev Masand, Film Critic

Download or read book One Flew over the Bulbul s Nest and Other Stories written by Mahvash K. Mohtadullah and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-08-28 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the stories in this book are joyful, staunch and uplifting reaching for the softer corners of the reader’s heart. From the paraplegic who found love in the whispers of the gulmohar tree; to the young widow torn between the drums of tradition and the sweet, hopeful beat of maternal love and compassion; to the woman who regularly traverses the full glimmering sweep of her inner world; to the case of the cheating spouse that will make Hercule Poirot untwirl his moustache in awe; to one of the good days of a man in the curiously tender grasp of dementia, One Flew Over The Bulbul’s Nest will take you down poignant and memorable lanes of love, loss and triumph. Some of the other stories are raw and defiant dealing with the thorny themes of devoutness, tradition and empowerment. From the girl who falls pregnant in the home where she grew up; to a faithful’s soul-searching dialogue with the devil; to the flashback account of a childhood cut short by the trusted family retainer. The Glimmer was longlisted in the 2023 Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Competition for women. Ravaged has been selected as part of an American academic publication, Sing, Slivered Tongue: An Anthology of South Asian Women’s Poetry of Trauma.

Download or read book A stormy Adventure and other Stories written by GIRIJA RANI ASTHANA and published by Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories for children.

Download or read book The Half Mother written by Shahnaz Bsahir and published by Hachette India. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `With delicately drawn characters, Shahnaz Bashir tells the heartbreaking story of one woman?s battle for life, dignity and justice.? ? Mirza Waheed, author of The Collaborator `The night is tired now, the old moon, hanging in the dark sky, is tired too? It is the 1990s, and Kashmir?s long war has begun to claim its first victims. Among them are Ghulam Rasool Joo, Haleema?s father, and her teenage son Imran, who is picked up by the authorities only to disappear into the void of Kashmir?s missing people. The Half Mother is the story of Haleema ? a mother and a daughter yesterday, a `half mother? and an orphan today; tormented by not knowing whether Imran is dead or alive, torn apart by her own lonely existence. While she battles for answers and seeks out torture camps, jails and morgues for any signs of Imran, Kashmir burns in a war that will haunt it for years to come. Heart-wrenching, deeply troubling and written in lyrical prose, The Half Mother marks the debut of a bold new voice from Kashmir.'

Download or read book Hashim and Family written by Shahnaz Ahsan and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stories of the Night and Other Stories of the Night written by Fahd Raza and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of ten philosophical short stories and seven poems from a young Pakistani writer. Appreciated by some of the best writers in India and Pakistan, like Muneeza Shamsie and Qurratulain Hyder, this book is a promising companion for lovers of fiction who would like to see the world from a modern Pakistani point of view. "I read [the stories] with interest and really liked [them]. I also thought some of the language and imagery was really lovely eg. 'autumn leaves dancing around like light in a crystal maze' and really good characteriszation, eg. 'His tortured feet heaved his rackety legs along with a definite purpose', 'His face was a mass of spaghetti lines, each engraved with a memory of its own'. etc." --- Muneeza Shamsie.

Download or read book A Woman s Tears and Other Stories written by S. B. Capoor and published by New Delhi : Sterling Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scattered Souls written by Shahnaz Bashir and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the 1990s. The army descended upon Kashmir to quell a massive armed rebellion against Indian rule. They entered not just the land, but also the lives of its people, fracturing their idea of home and punctuating their days and nights with curfews.This extraordinary collection brings together the stories of some of those people probing the quandaries of their precarious existence. There is that ex-militant whose past continues to stalk his present; the wife who begins to dress like her husband after losing him to a crossfire. There is the boy who obsessively follows President Obama's India visit, hoping to hear him mention the 'K' word; and the man whose transistor triggers paranoia in his neighbourhood.Unassuming yet hard-hitting, Scattered Souls journeys through a destroyed Kashmir swaddled in the memories of its fragile beauty.

Download or read book In My Arms Other Stories written by R. K. Sharma (prof. of English.) and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jasmine Days written by Benyamin (Shanaz Habib) and published by Juggernaut Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sameera Parvin moves to an unnamed Middle Eastern city to live with her father and her relatives. She thrives in her job as a radio jockey and at home she is the darling of the family. But her happy world starts to fall apart when revolution blooms in the country. As the people's agitation gathers strength, Sameera finds herself and her family embroiled in the politics of their adopted land. She is forced to choose between family and friends, loyalty and love, life and death.

Download or read book Embracing the Infidel written by Behzad Yaghmaian and published by Delta. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening personal account of an epic human drama, Embracing the Infidel takes us on an astounding journey along a modern-day underground railroad that stretches from Istanbul to Paris. In this groundbreaking book, Iranian-American Behzad Yaghmaian has done what no other writer has managed to do–as he enters the world of Muslim migrants and tells their extraordinary stories of hope for a new life in the West. In a tent city in Greece, they huddle together. Men and women from Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iran, and other countries. Most have survived war and brutal imprisonment, political and social persecution. Some have faced each other in battle, and all share a powerful desire for freedom. Behzad Yaghmaian lived among them, listened to their hopes, dreams, and fears–and now he weaves together dozens of their stories of yearning, persecution, and unwavering faith. We meet Uncle Suleiman, an Iraqi veteran of the Iran-Iraq war; once imprisoned by Saddam Hussein, he is now a respected elder of a ramshackle tent city in Athens, offering comfort and community to his fellow travelers…Purya, who fled Iran only to fall into the clutches of human smugglers and survive beatings and torture in Bulgaria…and Shahroukh Khan, an Afghan teenager whose world at home was shattered twice–once by the Taliban and again by American bombs–but whose story turns on a single moment of awakening and love in the courtyard of a Turkish mosque. A chronicle of husbands separated from wives, children from parents, Embracing the Infidel is a portrait of men and women moving toward a promised land they may never reach–and away from a world to which they cannot return. It is an unforgettable tale of heartbreak and prejudice, courage, heroism, and hope.

Download or read book In Other Rooms Other Wonders written by Daniyal Mueenuddin and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving from the elegant drawing rooms of Lahore to the mud villages of rural Multan, a powerful collection of short stories about feudal Pakistan. An impoverished young woman becomes a wealthy relative’s mistress; an electrician on the make confronts his desperate assailant to protect his most prized possession; a farm manager rises far in the world—but his family discovers after his death the transience of power; a maid, who advances herself through sexual favours, unexpectedly falls in love. In these linked stories about the family and household staff of the ageing KK Harouni, we meet masters and servants, landlords and supplicants, politicians and electricians, village women, and Karachi housewives. Part Chekhov, part RK Narayan, these stories are dark and light, complex and humane; at heart about the relationship between the powerful and powerless, bound together in life—and in death. Together they make up a vivid portrait of a feudal world rarely brought alive in the English language. Sensuous, graceful, melancholy, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders gives you Pakistan as you have never seen it. It marks the debut of an amazing new talent.

Download or read book Hotel Moenjodaro Other Stories written by G̲h̲ulām ʻAbbās and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Blue Lake Other Stories written by Kamleshwar and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book What s So Funny written by David Sipress and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a longtime New Yorker staff cartoonist, an evocative family memoir, a love letter to New York City, and a delightful exploration of the origins of creativity—richly interleaved with the author’s witty, beloved cartoons A wry and brilliantly observed portrait of the budding young cartoonist and his Upper West Side Jewish family in the age of JFK and Sputnik. Sipress, a dreamer and obsessive drawer, goes hazy when it comes to the ceaselessly imparted lessons-on-life from his father, the meticulous, upwardly mobile proprietor of Revere Jewelers, and in the face of the angsty expectations of his migraine-prone mother. With self-deprecation, wit, and artistry, Sipress paints his hapless place in his indelibly dysfunctional family, from the time he was tricked by his unreliable older sister into rocketing his pet turtle out his twelfth-floor bedroom window, to the moment he walks away from a Harvard PhD program in Russian history to begin his journey as a professional cartoonist. In What’s So Funny?—reminiscent of the masterly, humane recall of Roger Angell and the brainy humor of Roz Chast—Sipress's cartoons appear with spot-on precision, inducing delightful Aha moments in answer to the perennial question aimed at cartoonists: Where do you get your ideas?

Download or read book ADDED VALUE THE LIFE STORIES OF INDIAN BUSINESS LEADERS written by Peter Church and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Church OAM (Medal of the Order of Australia) holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales, a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Sydney and a Master’s of Law degree from the University of London. He has spent almost all his career working and living in the Asian region as an international lawyer and corporate adviser. He is the founder and chairman of AFG Venture Group (www.afgventuregroup.com), a corporate advisory firm with operations in Australia, South-East Asia and India and is Special Counsel to Blake Dawson (www. blakedawson. com), a leading Australian law firm with activities in a number of Asian jurisdictions. He was awarded the OAM in 1994 for his services towards the promotion of Australian business in South-East Asia.

Download or read book Run Away Like a Gingerbread Man written by Shahnaz Qayumi and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Run Away Like A Gingerbread Man tells the story of five-year-old Rustam, who lives with his mother in war-torn Afghanistan. When conditions at home become dangerous, they are forced to flee, and Rustam's mother comforts him with her version of the Gingerbread Man fable. The rich fantasy helps Rustam cope with the challenges of their escape. In our multicultural society, it is extremely common for children to have left their original homes, friends, their toys and possessions behind to begin another life somewhere strange and new. Unfortunately, it is often the case that these children were forced to leave their homelands out of necessity, out of fear for their own safety and that of their families. The author was inspired to write this story after escaping from Afghanistan with her then six-year-old son.