Download or read book SHEKHAR KAPUR S DEVI VOL 2 written by Shekhar Kapur and published by Graphic India. This book was released on 2014-01-12 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the Divine and the Diabolical, there is Devi. The power of the Goddess is unrivalled. Forged by the strength of the Gods, Devi retains a force meant to bring balance among Gods and men. But the current Devi incarnate is different. Her female host, Tara Mehta is still alive and struggles to comprehend the awesome responsibility she now faces. Humanity is threatened by the fallen Lord Bala and salvation rests in the hands of a Goddess - torn in two. Devi wields the power of the Gods, as well as the virtue that makes the female entity so distinct, yet so vulnerable compassion. The Divine and the Diabolical collide in an epic battle, culminating in a night of reckoning in Devi: Samarva, the exciting sequel to the premier volume!
Download or read book SHEKHAR KAPUR S DEVI VOL 4 written by Shekhar Kapur and published by Graphic India. This book was released on 2014-01-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tara Mehta was once human but when the spirit of a divine warrior fused with her, she became Devi, a living goddess sworn to protect mankind from threats both criminal and supernatural. Now the girl-turned-goddess must protect one of her own as a young woman claiming to be her long-lost sister appears, seeking refuge from a demonic cult. To make matters worse, a mysterious vigilante is on a murder spree and all the evidence points to Devi. Hunted by the law she swore to uphold and haunted by her own treacherous heart, will Tara be able to clear her name and find the truth about the woman who might be her sole surviving family member?
Download or read book RAMAYAN 3392AD VOL 2 written by Deepak Chopra and published by Graphic India. This book was released on 2014-01-12 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story thousands of years in the making, a re-imagining of one of the greatest tales ever, retold in the post-apocalyptic future. Mankind has been devastated and in its wake the monstrous being Ravan and his dark hordes threaten to wipe out what little is left of humanity but hope is alive in the form of mighty warrior Prince Ram. Along with his brother Lakshman and the lovely Seeta, daughter of Mother Earth, Rama sets out on a perilous journey to end Ravan's bloody grip on the world. Ramayan 3392 A.D. is an epic adventure which has been called "India's answer to Lord of the Rings" by the Times of India and features a surreal cast of fantastical creatures and spectacular battles, all within an astonishing quest to save humanity from a darker evil that the world has ever encountered before.
Download or read book SHEKHAR KAPUR S DEVI VOL 1 written by Shekhar Kapur and published by Graphic India. This book was released on 2014-01-12 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tara Mehta, an unsuspecting young woman in the futuristic Asian city, Sitapur, is the Devi. She has no idea that she is about to become the centerpiece of a divine battle between the Gods of Light and the demon Lord Bala. Devi is a powerhouse of a story about a young woman battling for survival in a landscape of ancient legends, duty and fate. She walks the line between tradition, destiny and free will. Where will she fall? Between the Divine and the Diabolical, there is Devi.
Download or read book Shekhar Kapur s Devi written by Shekhar Kapur and published by Virgin Comics Llc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part human and part goddess, Devi must learn to wield her goddess powers so that she can save the world from Lord Bala's evil grip, as Lord Bala tries to obtain the Source--an ancient vessel of unimaginable power. Original.
Download or read book SHEKHAR KAPUR S DEVI VOL 3 written by Shekhar Kapur and published by Graphic India. This book was released on 2014-01-12 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the dread dark lord, Bala, threatened humanity, the gods sacrificed a part of divine power, a Devi. Centuries later, when Bala rose again, Devi was incarnated in the form of a young woman, Tara Mehta. But the latest Devi incarnate is more than a Goddess, she is also human. After defeating Bala, Devi defies the Gods and chooses to stay in the earthly realm to protect Sitapur. As she comes to terms with her new role, she must deal with Apsara assassin, Kratha, determined to kill her, the shady underworld dons making their move on Sitapur and a mysterious super-powered being who hunts the Devi for purposes unknown.
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Download or read book India Dreams 2 When the Monsoon Returns written by Jean Francois Charles and published by Om Books International. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, December 1944. Emy hates India. 16 years ago, she had lost her parents there. And all of a sudden, the past beckons. Rather accidentally, Emy chances upon the personal diary of her mother Amélia, a resigned young woman, straight out of rigid Victorian England, confronted, through a strange India, with her own sexuality. January 1928. Amélia sets sail with Emmy on the first ship to Bombay, to reunite with her husband Thomas, captain in the army at Khalapur, in Rajasthan. But the reunion leaves much to be desired. Thomas seems to have changed unless it is Amélia who cannot handle the suffocating heat of the Thar desert. Fortunately, there is Kenneth Lowther, Thomas’s friend, an atheist philosopher, who tries to explain to Amélia, the disconcerting India, its religion, costumes and the magnificence of its maharajas...
