Download or read book The Curse of Damini written by Debajani Mohanty and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world seemed not enough for free spirited Renuka, when she married the highly educated Shashank hailing from the mightiest Zamindars of Bengal. However, soon her life turned upside down when a neighbor revealed her of their sinister past. Its a mysterious supernatural curse cast on their family almost a century back. Generation by generation, Damini's enraged curse had passed on, declining their family clan from hundreds to a handful few. Who would be Damini's next victim? And why innocent lives are at a stake for a crime committed by an ancestor a hundred years back? Renuka would not settle until she finds an answer and in her quest she struggles to eradicate all the evils that come in her way. Would she ever win a battle against an unseen enemy? Would the wrong done to Damini be ever avenged? Set against the nostalgic era of 1940s, the story narrates the arduous journey of Renuka Pal, the protagonist, from a rash teen age freedom fighter to the seasoned writer of the 21st century India. In this thrilling saga of death, betrayal and power plays the narrative would cover a large chunk of twentieth century history. The passing of time, historical events and the changing country is so well-woven to the story that one would hardly differentiate between fact and fiction.

Download or read book Who Killed Damini written by Soudia Parveen and published by Astitva Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-10-21 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damini lay lifeless on the cold floor, her body twisted in a horrifying pose of desperation. One arm was outstretched toward the door, as if in her final moments she had tried to crawl to safety. The once-elegant dress she wore was now ripped and stained with blood, her face bruised and scratched. Her wide, glassy eyes were frozen in terror, capturing the brutal struggle she endured. She had fought with everything she had, but it wasn’t enough. Inspector Sharma arrives at the scene. The cold, stiff skin beneath his fingers tells him the truth—she’s gone. But the bigger question looms: Who killed Damini? In a web of secrets, lies, and hidden motives, can Inspector Sharma piece together the clues and deliver justice? Or will the killer remain in the shadows, free to strike again? The clock is ticking, and only one thing is certain—nothing is as it seems. Who Killed Damini? Come, join the investigation and see if you can solve the murder before it's too late.

Download or read book Divorce is Beautiful written by Sandeep Vig and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a blend of diverse emotional and lived experiences of people who are divorced, contemplating about getting divorced, pulling themselves through estranged relationships, or are uncertain about marriage and want to remain single. It will also offer plausible solutions to divorce-related problems. In this book, the author brings the beautiful side of an otherwise dreaded and deferred word Divorce, inspired by his own experience. He has interviewed over a hundred people from various walks of life while writing the book. These people have left their imprints in the form of joys and sorrows, responsibilities and struggles & pains and gains experienced by them in their marriages, divorces, ongoing divorce processes and litigations, complicated personal fronts or by just sailing in the rickety boats of relationships. Flipping through the pages, the readers will experience an increased optimism to handle the existing problems in relationships and nurture those issues with more clarity. The readers will be motivated to be like a ‘king or queen of all good times.’ The seemingly ironic title will keep you motivated and engrossed till you reach the last page, only to believe that ‘Divorce is Beautiful & Sometimes Marriages too….’

Download or read book The Selector of Souls written by Shauna Singh Baldwin and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Selector of Souls begins with a scene that is terrifying, harrowing and yet strangely tender: we're in the mid ranges of the Himalayas as a young woman gives birth to her third child with the help of her mother, Damini. The birth brings no joy, just a horrible accounting, and the act that follows--the huge sacrifice made by Damini out of love of her daughter--haunts the novel. In Shauna Singh Baldwin's enthralling novel, two fascinating, strong-willed women must deal with the relentless logic forced upon them by survival: Damini, a Hindu midwife, and Anu, who flees an abusive marriage for the sanctuary of the Catholic church. When Sister Anu comes to Damini's home village to open a clinic, their paths cross, and each are certain they are doing what's best for women. What do health, justice, education and equality mean for women when India is marching toward prosperity, growth and becoming a nuclear power? If the baby girls and women around them are to survive, Damini and Anu must find creative ways to break with tradition and help this community change from within.

Download or read book The Complete Works of Rabindranath Tagore Illustrated written by Rabindranath Tagore and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 2384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabindhranath Tagore reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore was known by sobriquets: Gurudev, Kobiguru, Biswakobi. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. Poetry 1. Ama and Vinayaka 2. Baul Songs 3. Collected Poems 3.1. Boro-Budur 3.2. The Child 3.3. Freedom 3.4. From Hindi Songs of Jnanadas 3.5. Fulfilment 3.6. Krishnakali 3.7. The New Year 3.8. Raidas, the Sweeper 3.9. Santiniketan Song 3.10. Shesher Kobita 3.11. The Son of Man 3.12. This Evil Day 3.13. W.W. Pearson 4. Fruit-Gathering 5. The Fugitive The Fugitive I The Fugitive II The Fugitive III 6. Gitanjali 7. Kacha and Devayani 8. Karna and Kunti 9. Lover’s Gift 10. The Mother’s Prayer 11. Other Poems 12. Somaka and Ritvik 13. Songs of Kabir 14. Stray Birds 15. Vaishnava Songs Short Stories 1. A Feast for Rats 2. The Auspicious Vision 3. The Babus of Nayanjore 4. The Cabuliwallah 5. The Castaway 6. The Child’s Return 7. The Devotee 8. The Editor 9. The Elder Sister 10. Emancipation 11. Exercise-book 12. Finally 13. The Fugitive Gold 14. The Gift of Vision 15. Giribala 16. Haimanti: Of Autumn 17. Holiday 18. The Home-Coming 19. The Hungry Stones 20. In the Night 21. The Kingdom of Cards 22. Living or Dead? 23. The Lost Jewels 24. Mashi 25. Master Mashai 26. My Fair Neighbour 27. My Lord, the Baby 28. Once there was a King 29. The Parrot’s Training 30. The Patriot 31. The Postmaster 32. Raja and Rani 33. The Renunciation 34. The Riddle Solved 35. The River Stairs 36. Saved 37. The Skeleton 38. The Son of Rashmani 39. Subha 40. The Supreme Night 41. Unwanted 42. The Victory 43. Vision 44. We Crown Thee King Novels 1. The Broken Ties (Nastanirh) 2. The Home and the World 3. The Religion of Man Plays 1. Autumn-Festival 2. Chitra 3. The Cycle of Spring 4. The Gardener 5. The King and the Queen 6. The King of the Dark Chamber 7. Malini 8. The Post Office 9. Red Oleanders 10. Sacrifice 11. Sanyasi or the Ascetic 12. The Trial 13. The Waterfall Essays 1. The Center of Indian Culture 2. Creative Unity 2.1. An Eastern University 2.2. An Indian Folk Religion 2.3. The Creative Ideal 2.4. East and West 2.5. The Modern Age 2.6. The Nation 2.7. The Poet’s Religion 2.8. The Religion of the Forest 2.9. The Spirit of Freedom 2.10. Woman and Home 3. Nationalism 3.1. Nationalism in India 3.2. Nationalism in Japan 3.3. Nationalism in the West 3.4. The Sunset of the Century 4. Sadhana 4.1. The Problem of Evil 4.2. The Problem of Self 4.3. Realization in Action 4.4. Realization in Love 4.5. The Realization of Beauty 4.6. The Realization of the Infinite 4.7. The Relation of the Individual to the Universe 4.8. Soul Consciousness 5. The Spirit of Japan Non-Fiction 1. Glimpses of Bengal Introduction 1885 1887 1888 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 2. My Reminiscences Part 1 1. My Reminiscences 2. Teaching Begins 3. Within and Without Part 2 4. Servocracy 5. The Normal School 6. Versification 7. Various Learning 8. My First Outing 9. Practising Poetry Part 3 10. Srikantha Babu 11. Our Bengali Course Ends 12. The Professor 13. My Father 14. A journey with my Father 15. At the Himalayas Part 4 16. My Return 17. Home Studies 18. My Home Environment 19. Literary Companions 20. Publishing 21. Bhanu Singha 22. Patriotism 23. The Bharati Part 5 24. Ahmedabad 25. England 26. Loken Palit 27. The Broken Heart Part 6 28. European Music 29. Valmiki Pratibha 30. Evening Songs 31. An Essay on Music 32. The River-side 33. More about the Evening Songs 34. Morning Songs Part 7 35. Rajendrahal Mitra 36. Karwar 37. Nature’s Revenge 38. Pictures and Songs 39. An Intervening Period 40. Bankim Chandra Part 8 41. The Steamer Hulk 42. Bereavements 43. The Rains and Autumn 44. Sharps and Flats

Download or read book TRAVEL TO MYSTERIOUS LAND written by S.B. SUGRITHA and published by spectrum of thoughts. This book was released on 2021-02-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRAVEL TO MYSTERIOUS ISLAND is a short story fiction filled with travelling experience on reality and imaginative. Its a collection of 40 co-authors who portrayed this book with full of exclusive thoughts. They reveal their secret through this memorable book. Readers too can travel with the writer's mind and enjoy the blisses. The island which exists are unrevealed with historic twists. A portrayal of travel with immersive magical secrets.

Download or read book Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak written by Charlie Jane Anders and published by Tor Teen. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the international bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders, comes Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, the sequel to Victories Greater Than Death in the thrilling adventure Unstoppable series. They'll do anything to be the people they were meant to be — even journey into the heart of evil. Rachael Townsend is the first artist ever to leave Earth and journey out into the galaxy — but after an encounter with an alien artifact, she can't make art at all. Elza Monteiro is determined to be the first human to venture inside the Palace of Scented Tears and compete for the chance to become a princess — except that inside the palace, she finds the last person she ever wanted to see again. Tina Mains is studying at the Royal Space Academy with her friends, but she's not the badass space hero everyone was expecting. Soon Rachael is journeying into a dark void, Elza is on a deadly spy mission, and Tina is facing an impossible choice that could change all her friends lives forever. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Girl s Blessing or Curse written by and published by SPI Publications . This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The anthology is an initiative by Ankita Bhatia as a compiler on the important social issue that raises a question whether girls are burden or blessing for the society" because in the society where some people treat girls as goddess Lakshmi and on the other hand many say a burdon has come on us when a girl is born thinking of future to pay dowry and all... Many female authors have penned down their views for the same hoping to bring a little change in the society as the change begins from yourself.

Download or read book Me Too written by Jyoti Thatte and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A doe with shiny eyes, Silently from the herd shies, As the little fawn she licks, Foolishly stumbles and effortlessly kicks, Unknown, lost, safe in the herd, Silent, silent not a word, A predator set on a prowl, How it smells, how it growls, Sit silently o stupid little fawn, Do not dance do not yawn, It is a matter of life and death, Jungle is red in length and breadth, Be it tigress be it doe, For all there is some foe, So sit silently in the safety of the herd, Unknown to the grass, unknown to the herd, Till you grow and faster you run, There is a predator at every turn. In a jungle when a doe delivers a little fawn she knows there is danger everywhere, there is safety in the vastness of the herd, but some fawns want to experience the world and are unwittingly exposed to the predators. Till they learn to smell danger ignorant innocent women are as vulnerable as a fawn in a ruthless jungle. A woman’s education is incomplete if she doesn’t know how to protect herself from sexual predators. Women have an instinctive capacity to smell sexual predators the problem is, they don’t follow their instincts.

Download or read book Kill it to Green it written by Soumik Chakraborty and published by Redgrab Books pvt ltd. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent can you go to save your planet from global warming, save something for generations to come? The planet is burning and an Indian has decided to take actions about it. However, where does he start? He decides to start with the facilitators, who are milking away money by killing our planet. So, the police force are up against a serial killer who is killing all the high-profile entrepreneurs whose industries are polluting India, and on the bigger picture, the world. The police nicknames him as the Green man, based on his love for a greener planet. Parallelly, this story is also about Akash Bose, an I it I an who left his highly paid Office job to pursue his dreams of being a private detective but his portfolio is still limited to nuptial loyalty investigations. He falls for a beautiful married woman, damini, who is actually using Akash to get divorce from her hugely popular media reporter husband. As if love life problems were not enough, Akash accidentally becomes the media face of the serial killer police investigation, which is led by police Inspector, Rajiv Bakshi. Akash gets deeply involved in the cat and mouse game between the serial killer and law. In his first homicide investigation case, he is up against the righteous serial killer who can go to all limits for a greener planet. To give the rookie detective a fair chance and obviously for the fun of it, Green man starts sending him clues about the next murder. If Akash and Rajiv can decode the letters in time, they might be able to save a life but if they are late, the future of the Earth becomes a bit greener. The story maintains its pace through the twisted motivations of every individual involved with the case and holds a handful of nasty surprises.

Download or read book Seasons of Splendour written by Madhur Jaffrey and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant collection of Indian myths and legends illustrated in beautiful watercolors and told by one of India's sparkling personalities, Madhur Jaffrey. Seasons of Splendour is a richly illustrated treasury of stories about Indian gods and goddesses, kings and queens, princes and demons. Here are engaging and beautifully told tales of Krishna, Ram, and Sita, along with stories based on the Hindu epics the Ramayana and Mahabharata, as well as others of ancient origin with no known source. When Madhur Jaffrey was a young girl growing up in her grandfather’s house in Delhi, storytelling was an integral part of life. After dinner, she would huddle with her cousins and siblings around a seated aunt, grandmother, or mother and listen. This collection contains those enduring stories, each one introduced by a vivid childhood memory or humorous anecdote and arranged in the sequence in which they were told, in conjunction with religious festivals throughout the Hindu calendar year. From April to April, here is a year’s worth of tales, myths, and legends, a cycle of stories to read aloud, illustrated in full color with Michael Foreman’s sumptuous watercolor paintings. Also included is a “Who Is Who and What Is What” glossary and English pronunciation guide for curious young readers.

Download or read book Bollywood Horrors written by Ellen Goldberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bollywood Horrors is a wide-ranging collection that examines the religious aspects of horror imagery, representations of real-life horror in the movies, and the ways in which Hindi films have projected cinematic fears onto the screen. Part one, “Material Cultures and Prehistories of Horror in South Asia” looks at horror movie posters and song booklets and the surprising role of religion in the importation of Gothic tropes into Indian films, told through the little-known story of Sir Devendra Prasad Varma. Part two, “Cinematic Horror, Iconography and Aesthetics” examines the stereotype of the tantric magician found in Indian literature beginning in the medieval period, cinematic representations of the myth of the fearsome goddess Durga's slaying of the Buffalo Demon, and the influence of epic mythology and Hollywood thrillers on the 2002 film Raaz. The final part, “Cultural Horror,” analyzes elements of horror in Indian cinema's depiction of human trafficking, shifting gender roles, the rape-revenge cycle, and communal violence. This book also features images (colour in the hardback, black and white in the paperback).

Download or read book Getting Tara Back written by Almas Hussain and published by Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even the gentlest of people can go rogue. It’s just a matter of how far one is pushed. At 30, small-town mom Damini was living an idyllic life with her doctor husband and their three-year-old daughter, Tara. She’s violently wrenched out of her peaceful existence when her toddler is kidnapped by a big-city gang. The gangsters choose to communicate only with her. Secretly. Isolated, Damini becomes their slave. She’s ready to do anything to save her baby’s life. Then they ask for the unthinkable. An inside job that’ll devastate everybody she holds near and dear to her. With her back to the wall, Damini changes. So far, they were glad to see she was ready to do anything to get her baby back. They failed to realize that anything means anything. Then, the kidnappers begin to die. One by one...

Download or read book Imaging a Nation written by Karen Gabriel and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliography p. 423-451.

Download or read book The Horror Show Guide written by Mike Mayo and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cinefile’s guidebook covers the horror genre monstrously well! Find reviews of over 1,000 of the best, weirdest, wickedest, wackiest, and most entertaining scary movies from every age of horror! Atomic bombs, mad serial killers, zealous zombies, maniacal monsters lurking around every corner, and the unleashing of technology, rapidly changing and dominating our lives. Slasher and splatter films. Italian giallo and Japanese city-stomping monster flicks. Psychological horrors, spoofs, and nature running amuck. You will find these terrors and many more in The Horror Show Guide: The Ultimate Frightfest of Movies. No gravestone is left unturned to bring you entertaining critiques, fascinating top-ten lists, numerous photos, and extensive credit information to satisfy even the most die-hard fans. Written by a fan for fans, The Horror Show Guide helps lead even the uninitiated to unexpected treasures of unease and mayhem with lists of similar motifs, including ... Urban Horrors Nasty Bugs, Mad Scientists and Maniacal Medicos Evil Dolls Bad Hair Days Big Bad Werewolves Most Appetizing Cannibals Classic Ghost Stories Fiendish Families Guilty Pleasures Literary Adaptations Horrible Highways and Byways Post-Apocalyptic Horrors Most Regrettable Remakes Towns with a Secret and many more. With reviews on many overlooked, underappreciated gems, new devotees and discriminating dark-cinema enthusiasts alike will love this big, beautiful, end-all, be-all guide to an always popular film genre. With many photos, illustrations, and other graphics, The Horror Show Guide is richly illustrated. Its helpful appendix of movie credits, bibliography, and extensive index add to its usefulness.

Download or read book Boundless Sky written by Rabindranath Tagore and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chaturanga written by Rabindranath Tagore and published by Sahitya Akademi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bengali Quatrain Or Payar, Itself Based On The Primal Rhythm Of The Santal Drum, And The Classical Four-Part Musical Form Were Of Inexhaustible Interest To Tagore. Creator Of The WorldýS Largest And Most Varied Corpus Of Lieder And Song Cycles, He Constructed Many Of His Stories And Novellas In Four Parts: Exposition, Development, Variation And Recapitulation. He Was Deeply Attached To This Form, Its Varying Rhythms And Speeds, And Used It Repeatedly Not Only In His Early Stories But In The Most Powerful Novella Of His Early Fifties (1914-15), Chaturanga.