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A brilliant student from a poor family, Kalai Arasi is forced to take up acting in films. She attracts the atttention of the reigning superstar, PKB who becomes her lover and mentor. Years later, they met when the actor-turned politician coaxes her to campaign for him and met with spectacular success when PKB wins a third term by a landslide, but dies within days after his victory. In the brutal battle for power that follows, Kalai seizes the throne to become the chief minister of Tamil Naidu.
How exactly did Draupadi share a one-room hut with her five husbands? What would be Bhishma’s story if it is told by his nemesis Sikandi? What kept Sitai occupied when Raman was out hunting deer and demons? What if Akalya knew it was Indra who came disguised to her as her husband? Twisty, dark and mischievous, these are tales from Indian mythology retold from a woman’s point of view. Here, the heroines tell their own stories, no holds barred.
Gazing out into the glowing curtain of evening summer rain, his body floods with fear as a cold hand clamps over his mouth. He doesn't even have a chance to scream as he is pulled down into the dark. When actor Majid Rahman's body is found in a neighbourhood allotment in Leicester, Detective Vijay Patel is one of the first on the scene, but is unable to save the man. Although his mother's house backs onto the gardens, he resolves to let the local police do their work. But after a neighbour is kidnapped and the detective in charge doesn't want to know, Patel vows to find the killer. When Patel uncovers a leather bag stuffed with money and a gold necklace near to where Majid's body was found, ...
Presents a collection of poems by black and Asian writers.
A collector of objects, Amy Ashton, who believes it is easier to love things than people, finds her solitary existence interrupted when a new family moves in next door with two young boys--one of whom has a collection of his own.
This is the story of Bhima, the second son, always second in line -- a story never adequately told until one of India's finest writers conjured him up from the silences in Vyasa's narrative. M.T. Vasudevan Nair's Bhima is a revelation -- lonely, eager to succeed, treated with a mixture of affection and contempt by his Pandava brothers, and with scorn and hatred by his Kaurava cousins, Bhima battles incessantly with failure and disappointment. He is adept at disguising his feelings, but has an overwhelmingly intuitive understanding of everyone who crosses his path. A warrior without equal, he takes on the mighty Bakasura and Jarasandha, and ultimately Duryodhana, thus bringing the Great War to a close. However, all of Bhima's moments of triumph remain unrecognized and unrewarded. If his mother saw glory only in the skills of Arjuna and the wisdom of Yudhishtira, his beloved Draupadi cared only for the beauteous Arjuna.
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Family secrets, sinister murders, a divided Edinburgh - the next thrilling medical mystery in the historical crime series featuring duo Will Raven and Sarah Fisher
This book includes original, peer-reviewed research from the 3rd International Conference on Emerging Trends in Electrical, Communication and Information Technologies (ICECIT 2018), held at Srinivasa Ramanujan Institute of Technology, Ananthapuramu, Andhra Pradesh, India in December 2018. It covers the latest research trends and developments in the areas of Electrical Engineering, Electronic and Communication Engineering, and Computer Science and Information.
‘Main Shakeel Bhai bol raha hoon. Farmaiyen, Sheelaji!’ Among the first female journalists in India to investigate crime and the underworld, Sheela Raval has had an eventful three-decade-long career in print media and television that has seen her track India’s most notorious criminals across different parts of the globe. Always hot on the trail of a story, Raval broke the news about Chhota Rajan surviving a brutal assassination attempt in Bangkok in 2000, attended Dawood Ibrahim’s daughter’s wedding in Dubai and is the only person to have interviewed Samira Jumani, noted gangster Abu Salem’s first wife, after Salem’s arrest and extradition. Now, in a candid memoir of fearless r...