Download or read book Sonali s Friend written by Alaka Shankar and published by . This book was released on 1980-03 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sonali Ka Mitra Hindi written by Shankar and published by Children's Book Trust. This book was released on 1982 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story about a girl child, Sonali and her friendship with crow.
Download or read book Sonali s Friend written by Alaka Shankar and published by Children's Book Trust. This book was released on 1976 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Little Child Wants To Be Friendly With A Crow But The Crow Plays True To Nature And Robs The Child Of A Biscuit.
Download or read book Wave written by Sonali Deraniyagala and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brave, intimate, beautifully crafted memoir by a survivor of the tsunami that struck the Sri Lankan coast in 2004 and took her entire family. On December 26, Boxing Day, Sonali Deraniyagala, her English husband, her parents, her two young sons, and a close friend were ending Christmas vacation at the seaside resort of Yala on the south coast of Sri Lanka when a wave suddenly overtook them. She was only to learn later that this was a tsunami that devastated coastlines through Southeast Asia. When the water began to encroach closer to their hotel, they began to run, but in an instant, water engulfed them, Sonali was separated from her family, and all was lost. Sonali Deraniyagala has written an extraordinarily honest, utterly engrossing account of the surreal tragedy of a devastating event that all at once ended her life as she knew it and her journey since in search of understanding and redemption. It is also a remarkable portrait of a young family's life and what came before, with all the small moments and larger dreams that suddenly and irrevocably ended.
Download or read book Ghachar Ghochar written by Vivek Shanbhag and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOKS OF 2017 ONE OF VULTURE'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN FICTION “A modern classic.” —The New York Times Book Review A young man's close-knit family is nearly destitute when his uncle founds a successful spice company, changing their fortunes overnight. As they move from a cramped, ant-infested shack to a larger house on the other side of Bangalore, and try to adjust to a new way of life, the family dynamic begins to shift. Allegiances realign; marriages are arranged and begin to falter; and conflict brews ominously in the background. Things become “ghachar ghochar”—a nonsense phrase uttered by one meaning something tangled beyond repair, a knot that can't be untied. Elegantly written and punctuated by moments of unexpected warmth and humor, Ghachar Ghochar is a quietly enthralling, deeply unsettling novel about the shifting meanings—and consequences—of financial gain in contemporary India. “A classic tale of wealth and moral ruin.” —The New Yorker “Ghachar Ghochar introduces us to a master.” —The Paris Review Named a Best Book of the Year by the Guardian, Globe and Mail, and Publishers Weekly Shortlisted for the ALTA National Translation Award in Prose Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award
Download or read book Under Her Spell written by Dileep Padgaonkar and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He Had Come To See A World At The End Of One Period Of History And At The Beginning Of Another More Dramatic One. When He Came To India In December 1956 Roberto Rossellini Was An Internationally Renowned Figure. Highly Acclaimed As A Director Of Italian Neo-Realist Films And Married To Hollywood Legend Ingrid Bergman, His Was An Ebullient Yet Intense Personality That Combined A Fondness For Flashy Cars And Lovely Women With A Passionately Serious Commitment To Exploring The Human Condition And Portraying It With Unflinching And Unvarnished Honesty. Rossellini Had Come To India At The Invitation Of The Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. His Aim Was To Make A Series Of Films Which Would Capture The Newly Independent Country As It Came To Grips With Progress And Development After Centuries Of Colonialism. He Deliberately Eschewed The Exotica Which Had Beguiled All Too Many Western Travellers. He Refused To Be Distracted By The Monuments, The Spirituality And Cultural Bric-A-Brac, Preferring Instead To Fix His Gaze On The Actual Moment, On The Grand Endeavours Of Industrialization, Land Reform And The Then Still Fledging Democratic Spirit-- The India Of Nehru S Vision. India Changed Rossellini Irrevocably. It Was Here That He Encountered The Dusky, Doe-Eyed Sonali Dasgupta, Then 27 Years-Old, The Wife Of A Documentary Film-Maker And The Mother Of Two Small Children. Their Connection Scandalized Indian Society And Became The Object Of A Sustained Campaign By Elements In The Indian Press, Instigated By The Bombay Film Industry Which Resented Nehru S Patronage Of A Foreign Film-Maker And Rossellini S Unconcealed Contempt For Their Overblown, Fantastical Extravaganzas. Eminent Journalist Dileep Padgaonkar Enters The World Of India In The 1950S--The Great Political Expectations, The Curious, Interconnected Lives Of The Bombay Elite, The Still Isolated Universe Of Indian Villages--And Traces Rossellini S Passage Through All Of Them. Using Contemporary Reports, Interviews And The Published And Unpublished Reminiscences Of Those Involved In The Drama, He Looks At The Films That Rossellini Made And At Events As They Unfolded To Create A Portrait Of A Remarkable Man Who Fell Under The Spell Of A Woman, A Country And Its People. Under Her Spell Is Spell-Binding...The Personality (Of Rossellini) That Emerges From Dileep Padgaonkar'S Painstakingly Researched Work&Is That Of A Complex, Creatively Restless, Controversial And Often Contradictory Human Being, Who Also Happened To Be A Classic Alpha Male. -Shyam Benegal, Film Director Rossellini Transgressed Every Conceivable Boundary He Was Confronted With - Personal Or Professional. Some Of The Transgressions Were Path-Breaking In His Life And In His Work. Some Others Brought On Meaningless Misery And Disappointment. He Remained A Teacher In Failures, Even. Under Her Spell Is An Engrossing Account Of Magnificent Compulsions. -Mani Kaul, Film Director A Well-Researched And Original Inquiry Into A Key Period Of Rossellini S Evolution Towards A New Kind Of Cinema. Dileep Padgaonkar S Account Of His Passage To India Reads Like A Passionate Novel. -Adriano Aprà, Italian Film Historian The Joy Of Discovery In Rossellini S (Film), India, Is Echoed In This Magnificent Chronicle Of The Italian Director S Incredible Adventures& Dileep Padgaonkar Has Found A Wealth Of New Sources For This Amazing Story. -Tag Gallagher, Author Of The Adventures Of Roberto Rossellini)
Download or read book Where Are You Blue written by Sonali Fry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Blue Dot is running late, his whereabouts get caught up in a hilarious chain of miscommunication. “Okay! Blue Dot is on his way.” “What? Blue Dot has joined the ballet?” “Wait no—he said he’d be here soon.” “Why did Blue Dot go to the moon?” Blue Dot is late for dinner, and one misheard statement leads to a string of rumors about where he could be. Did he move out of town? Has he become a circus clown? Why is he delayed? Did he join a parade? It’s a classic game of telephone gone awry. Readers young and old will love sharing this sturdy board book filled with rhyming text and dots who are as vibrant in color as they are in character.
Download or read book The Bollywood Bride written by Sonali Dev and published by Kensington. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year ● NPR Best Books of the Year ● Amazon Fall Reading Selection ● Goodreads Best Romances of the Month ● International Dublin Literary Award Longlist "A fresh new voice." —Susan Elizabeth Phillips, New York Times bestselling author Ria Parkar is Bollywood's favorite Ice Princess—beautiful, poised, and scandal-proof—until one impulsive act threatens to expose her destructive past. Traveling home to Chicago for her cousin's wedding offers a chance to diffuse the coming media storm and find solace in family, food, and outsized celebrations that are like one of her vibrant movies come to life. But it also means confronting Vikram Jathar. Ria and Vikram spent childhood summers together, a world away from Ria's exclusive boarding school in Mumbai. Their friendship grew seamlessly into love—until Ria made a shattering decision. As far as Vikram is concerned, Ria sold her soul for stardom and it's taken him years to rebuild his life. But beneath his pent-up anger, their bond remains unchanged. And now, among those who know her best, Ria may find the courage to face the secrets she's been guarding for everyone else's benefit—and a chance to stop acting and start living. Rich with details of modern Indian-American life, here is a warm, sexy, and witty story of love, family, and the difficult choices that arise in the name of both.
Download or read book A Distant Heart written by Sonali Dev and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author who is “unparalleled in the world of romantic fiction” beautifully evokes all the complexities of modern-day India—and the human heart (Kristan Higgins). Her name means “miracle” in Sanskrit, and to her parents, that’s exactly what Kimaya is. The first baby to survive after several miscarriages, Kimi grows up in a mansion at the top of Mumbai’s Pali Hill, surrounded by love and privilege. But at eleven years old, she develops a rare illness that requires her to be confined to a germ-free ivory tower in her home, with only the Arabian Sea churning outside her window for company . . . until one person dares venture into her world. Tasked at fourteen years old with supporting his family, Rahul Savant shows up to wash Kimi’s windows, and an unlikely friendship develops across the plastic curtain of her isolation room. As years pass, Rahul becomes Kimi’s eyes to the outside world—and she becomes his inspiration to better himself by enrolling in the police force. But when a life-saving heart transplant offers the chance of a real future, both must face all that ties them together—and all that keeps them apart . . . Praise for Sonali Dev and A Change of Heart “In Dev’s seductive and complex story of love lost and then found, one layer of mystery leads to the next . . . Will hold a permanent place in readers’ hearts.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Mystery, adventure, and romance are spiced with Bollywood glamour in this heart-stopping novel . . . Riveting.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Download or read book Life has a Song for Everyone written by Mayur Madhekar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if life and love are throwing the same nightmares of the past at you over and over again? They suck! Don’t they? Or is it the case that we’ve misinterpreted what love and life really stand for? Till reaching the twenties, we all have survived something back in our pasts. Arvind and Sonali are no different. They find each other in their second year of engineering. Arvind confesses his love to Sonali. Although confused and not a firm believer in love, Sonali doesn’t reject, instead decides to be friends first. With time, their friendship and bonding bloom more. That’s when life introduces Smitha into their skit, turning the tables in a way in which no one has ever imagined, making their lives a complete mess. Growing with confusion and complications, the three of them tangle in between the plays of love and life. From loving love to hating it, from believing in life to blaming it, will they ever unravel from this chaos? Will they ever find a meaning? Or will a meaning find them and blossom their lives forever? Let’s find out.
Download or read book Eloise Takes a Trip written by Kay Thompson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated in the style of Hilary Knight, this sticker book featuring Eloise includes a handle and more than 50 reusable stickers that let kids join Eloise as she recalls her trips to such fabulous places as Paris, Moscow, and Hollywood. Full color. Consumable.
Download or read book Tail of tales written by Ekata Bhat and published by Manda Publishers. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology
Download or read book Let s Have a Tea Party written by Sonali Fry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holly, Carrie, and Amy are preparing treats for a tea party. When Hollys brother Robby brings peanut-butter-and-pickle sandwiches, Holly says theyre not appropriate for the party. After disaster strikes, the girls soon appreciate Robbys kindness. Includes seven scratch-and-sniff patches. Full color.
Download or read book Date with Destiny written by Lucy Vine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ginny is about to turn 32. It’s a year she’s been thinking about for a long time because sixteen years ago she crossed paths with a psychic who made some key predictions about her thirty-second year . . . Three Bad Things: A heartbreak, a loss of independence and a death. Three Good Things: A life-changing trip, reconnecting with someone and meeting her soulmate. It's all nonsense – obviously! Especially since Ginny is getting married in a month. But when some of those pesky predictions start coming true, she finds herself wondering what will happen next . . . 'The perfect laugh-a-minute summer read' STYLIST
Download or read book Time Loop written by Sumeet S. Navalkar and published by Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weltri attempts to ascertain some facts by travelling to the future, but when he returns, events in his present take a different turn. Did he change anything in space-time just by the act of time-travelling? Or is it something else? Swayam wants to travel to the past along with his prospective bride, Rupa, to check whether those very similar dreams that they both have were really some events of the past or just a weird coincidence. And when they do travel to the past, Rupa is attracted to a man in that timeline… Suresh is Weltri’s reincarnate who has waited long in this lifetime for his past-life wife, Pranayi. Will he ever be able to find her especially when he has no idea if or where she might have taken birth or whether she remembers her past-life? There is nothing he can do to find her, and he has accepted that his wait has been futile, but he still has his time-machine. What good will a time-machine do when what it can do is only to take him to the past, but not reverse time? Swayam’s father, Nimish, is the least known person from the famous Weltri’s family. But he is so only by choice. He has the brilliance of his father and the logical mind of his mother. But will he be able to change his past and marry the right woman; if he does not, then Swayam may never be born…
Download or read book When I Am with You written by Durjoy Datta and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can plan everything, but you can't plan with whom and when you'll fall in love, isn't it? Aishwarya, at twenty-eight years, would rather be a single mother than trust the 'normal' family structure. In her new start-up, she wants to revolutionize childcare for young woman professionals-this is her ultimate goal. Plus, she's in a hurry to do it all. On her mind is the ambitious and good-looking Akshay, perfect genetic material, but he's not ready to be part of her plans. Yet. In comes Dhiren, who has made and lost his money in cryptocurrency. He takes up the first floor of Aishwarya's nursery building and, by a queer coincidence, begins to work for her. Her friends Smriti and Vinny, as protective as mother hens, warn her against Dhiren. There is something that he's hiding along with his friend Neeraj-they just don't know what. Things begin to take shape but really, it's just the beginning of a disaster. The only thing that can save them is what they don't want-love. Crazy, quirky and so utterly romantic, this book is the ultimate relationship roller coaster!
