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Dukhi Dadiba and the Irony of Fate
Dukhi Dadiba is a tragic love story written in an easy, colourful style. It centres around the missing heir of a very wealthy and socially prominent Parsi family, and the difficult choice the heroine has to make, whether to marry for money or love. It brings alive the lifestyle of upperclass Parsi society in late nineteenth century Mumbai, and the dilemmas they faced at a time when they were becoming increasingly westernized. Taraporewala's vividly drawn characters, his true-to-life dialogues, the twists and turns of an often improbable plot, keep the readers riveted. There is a pompous social climber, Darashah Davar; his beautiful but fickle daughter, Pareen; her handsome and virtuous music teacher, Dadiba; the wealthy but weak heir to the Bahadurshah estate, Jehangir; and last but not least, Jehangir's mother Ratanmai who, uncharacteristically for a woman of her time, chooses truth and justice over and above her deep feelings for her son. These characters come to life even more vividly through the evocative illustrations of the famous artist M.V. Dhurandhar.
The Irony of Fate
Best friends with perfect lives. That's what everyone who knows Liz and Cassie sees. Perfect houses, perfect husbands, perfect careers... but nothing is ever perfect. Each woman feels dissatisfied, harboring a desperate desire for something more in her life, secretly caving under the pressures of adulthood. Through nearly two decades of friendship, Cassie and Liz have confided in each other over everything from wardrobe decisions to major life choices. But not this time. Cassie, the overly driven ENT surgeon, aches to be a mother. Liz, the sassy plastic surgeon, craves a spicy romance. When desperation leads to betrayal, the women lose the one constant in their lives: each other.Through heartache and forgiveness, both women will see the purpose of their painful journey and learn that fate leads you right where you need to be.
Caring for the Life
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The Scent of Happiness
'The Scent of Happiness could describe Vatsala too. Resilience, positivity, and laughter - these are the words that come to my mind when I think of Vatsala. Hers has been a life of deep troughs, just like the protagonist of this story. The scent of happiness pervades this story as it pervades Vatsala's spirit. Like the manoranjitham flower, the Ananda inside us may turn shades as we live, but it will always be fragrant.' Justice PRABHA SRIDEVAN (Retd), Writer and Translator 'When women begin to examine and represent their lives critically and with honesty, many an untruth starts to crumble. In order to prevent this crumbling, society hands them the burdensome responsibility of preserving family honour, thus forcing them into silence. The journey of Prema in Vatsala's novel The Scent of Happiness acts like a beacon of hope and light for such women.' A. ARULMOZHI, Advocate, Feminist and Social Activist
Karan Ghelo
In the grip of lust, Raja Karan Vaghela abducts the beautiful Roopsundari, his prime minister Madhav’s wife. Fuelled by a desire for revenge, Madhav escapes to Delhi and persuades Sultan Alauddin Khilji to invade Gujarat and destroy Patan fort. This unleashes a dramatic chain of events that forever ends Rajput rule in Gujarat, heralding the dawn of a new age. Rich in psychological insight and imbued with a poetic vision, Karan Ghelo tells the spellbinding tale of a man who tragically failed his land and its people.
Mirror in the Hall and Other Stories
Joshi's fiction is animated by his extraordinary sensitivity to the uncanny and inexplicable dimensions of experience that underlie and sometimes infiltrate our lives governed by routines. He has an admirable gift for portraying normality as it begins to slide by degrees towards chaos, without raising the emotional temperature of his prose.
Prison Notes of a Woman Activist
A luminous account of jail from the pen of a sensitive young woman who draws deeply moving sketches of women who sometimes do not even know why they are in prison. Anuradha's stories move from children who are born in prison, with no idea of the world outside their walls - not even knowing what the moon looks like except on television - to old women bent with age serving life sentences and longing for release before they die so that they can die at home. But jail life is also throbbing with humanity in the midst of trauma and sadness. Women share their pain, write petitions for each other, discover histories of the jail where the staff recall other inmates who are incarcerated for their cons...
Karan Ghelo
The first Indian headmaster of an English-medium school in Surat, and later Diwan of Bhuj, Nandshankar Mehta (1835-1905) was a strong advocate of social reform. Karan Ghelo, the first modern Gujarati novel and his only work of fiction, draws heavily on bardic chronicles and historic texts. // Tulsi Vatsal, a graduate of Oxford University, is an independent researcher, writer and editor. She has authored a number of books on Indian history and culture. Her latest book is Sahib, Bibi, Nawab: Baluchar Silks of Bengal 1750-1900. // Aban Mukherji is the author of Soonamai Desai of Navsari: A Biographical and Autobiographical Sketch. She is currently co-editing a nineteenth-century Gujarati text, Mumbaino Bahaar.
