One Monsoon In Mumbai Trouble And Laughter And Mushy Stuff

Author : Anitha Perinchery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1637540469

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One Monsoon in Mumbai by Anitha Perinchery Pdf

A nerdy hero, a dashing villain...and an interfering auntie.Life's complicated for Seema Rawat, cyberspy.From picking pockets in the slums of Mumbai to being picked as an agent by Intelligence Bureau's hacking unit, Seema has come a long way. For her first assignment, she has to romance the suspect and break into his system.The target, Adhith, isn't the kind of criminal she's met before. Looks, charm, money, and power... he has it all.Well... Seema never backed away from a challenge. There are just two problems. Her auntie keeps a very close eye on her virtue. Then there's Vikram-Adhith's boss and BFF-who's nerdy and awkward and altogether adorable. Also, he's a tech wizard. His specialty? Cybersecurity.One Monsoon in Mumbai is a zany spy romance with twists, turns, and humor that make it the perfect adventure.Praise for One Monsoon in MumbaiMIDWEST BOOK REVIEW: "One Monsoon in Mumbai isn't about just one storm, but a series of confrontations steeped in Indian atmosphere, intrigue, and fun... a standout in Indian action fiction."READERS' FAVORITE REVIEW: "...a stellar cast of characters who provide humor, wit, and a perfect dose of flirtation to move the story along."

Author : Anitha Perinchery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733798617

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One Monsoon in Mumbai by Anitha Perinchery Pdf

One Nerdy Hero, One Dashing Villain, One Interfering Auntie... Life's complicated for Seema Rawat, cyberspy. From the files of the Intelligence Bureau: Name: Seema Rawat Job: Child pickpocket-turned-cyberspy Mission: Infiltrate the suspect's place of work and extract information from his computer. Target: Adhith Verma, son of India's finance minister. Handsome, charming, well-dressed. Threat: Vikram Joshi, suspect's boss and BFF, cybersecurity prodigy hot on the trail of the spy in their systems. Always says the wrong thing at the wrong time but has pecs and abs which can send Seema's hormones into a Bollywood group dance. Complication: Seema's auntie who is determined to protect her virtue from both men. Operation: ONE MONSOON IN MUMBAI.

Author : Gregory David Roberts
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429908276

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Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts Pdf

Based on his own extraordinary life, Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram is a mesmerizing novel about a man on the run who becomes entangled within the underworld of contemporary Bombay—the basis for the Apple + TV series starring Charlie Hunnam. “It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.” An escaped convict with a false passport, Lin flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of Bombay, where he can disappear. Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter the city’s hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere. As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city’s poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power. Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas—this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart.

Author : Nikhil Anand
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822373599

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Hydraulic City by Nikhil Anand Pdf

In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Mumbai's settlements, Anand found that Mumbai's water flows, not through a static collection of pipes and valves, but through a dynamic infrastructure built on the relations between residents, plumbers, politicians, engineers, and the 3,000 miles of pipe that bind them. In addition to distributing water, the public water network often reinforces social identities and the exclusion of marginalized groups, as only those actively recognized by city agencies receive legitimate water services. This form of recognition—what Anand calls "hydraulic citizenship"—is incremental, intermittent, and reversible. It provides residents an important access point through which they can make demands on the state for other public services such as sanitation and education. Tying the ways Mumbai's poorer residents are seen by the state to their historic, political, and material relations with water pipes, the book highlights the critical role infrastructures play in consolidating civic and social belonging in the city.

Author : Anand Giridharadas
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781458763099

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India Calling by Anand Giridharadas Pdf

Reversing his parents immigrant path, a young writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new. Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, Were all trying to go that way, pointing to the rear. You, youre going this way. Giridharadas was...

Author : Anitha Perinchery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1733798641

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A Goan Holiday: Contemporary Fiction With A Romantic Bent. by Anitha Perinchery Pdf

Have you ever looked through faded, old photographs and wondered what if? Has your heart ever brought to you the memory of a lost love, the bittersweet remembrances of a college romance? Have you even once yearned to return to a time less complicated? A Goan Holiday is that story of second chances. Meet Rishi, Joe, and Anjali. There are other friends in their group--a total of seven. The gang met as medical students in Delhi. The whole universe was ahead of them until one terrible week in November 2008 changed everything. One of them disappeared, leaving the others confused and devastated. Eleven years later, they meet again by chance in Goa. Will Joe finally tell them what happened to make him walk away? Will Rishi discover who's blackmailing him over a mistake from so long ago? Will Anjali find the strength to be the person she wants and not what's expected of her? Read A Goan Holiday to find out. _________________________________________ Mysterious Exes, Nosy Neighbours, the Cops at Her Door, and a Job She Never Asked For... Anjali"s Life Is One Hot Mess. From the INTERPOL database: Target 1: Anjali Joshi. Doctor; manages a rundown charity clinic in a Goan town which may or may not be a front for criminal operations. Target 2: Rishabh Rastogi, the sizzling ex-husband whose name somehow keeps popping up in connection with the investigation into the clinic. Target 3: Joe D'Acosta, the brooding former boyfriend who resurfaces after vanishing without a trace eleven years ago following a visit to the clinic. Complication: Ha! As in just one complication? Let's start with the fact both the exes want Anjali back. Then, there's the nosy neighbour who thinks Anjali is keeping a male harem and is trying to drive her out of town. Operation: (going down the drain... kidding... maybe...) A Goan Holiday.

Author : Kashmira Sheth
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780061991882

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Boys Without Names by Kashmira Sheth Pdf

For eleven-year-old Gopal and his family, life in their rural Indian village is over: We stay, we starve, his baba has warned. With the darkness of night as cover, they flee to the big city of Mumbai in hopes of finding work and a brighter future. Gopal is eager to help support his struggling family until school starts, so when a stranger approaches him with the promise of a factory job, he jumps at the offer. But Gopal has been deceived. There is no factory, just a small, stuffy sweatshop where he and five other boys are forced to make beaded frames for no money and little food. The boys are forbidden to talk or even to call one another by their real names. In this atmosphere of distrust and isolation, locked in a rundown building in an unknown part of the city, Gopal despairs of ever seeing his family again. But late one night, when Gopal decides to share kahanis, or stories, he realizes that storytelling might be the boys' key to holding on to their sense of self and their hope for any kind of future. If he can make them feel more like brothers than enemies, their lives will be more bearable in the shop—and they might even find a way to escape.

Author : Shoma Narayanan
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780373178445

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Monsoon Wedding Fever by Shoma Narayanan Pdf

Riya is shocked to find the man who broke her heart, Dhruv, has returned to India for her roommate's wedding and a possible arranged marriage.

Author : Chandra Vikram,Chandra,Vikram
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Mumbai (India)
ISBN : 0143414178

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Love And Longing In Bombay (R/E) by Chandra Vikram,Chandra,Vikram Pdf

A collection of stories set in contemporary India. In Dharma, a soldier is forced to amputate his leg in order to save his life, Shakti is on two feuding society women, and Kama is on a detective who discovers political corruption at the highest level.

Author : Bee Ridgway
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780142180839

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The River of No Return by Bee Ridgway Pdf

Named a Notable Fiction Book of 2013 by The Washington Post “An engrossing adventure, with mystery, romance, humor, and impeccable historical detail.” –The Boston Globe Devon, 1815. The charming Lord Nicholas Davenant and the beguiling Julia Percy should make a perfect match. But before their love has a chance to grow, Nicholas is presumed dead in the Napoleonic war. Nick, however, is lost in time. Somehow he escaped certain death by leaping two hundred years forward to the present day where he finds himself in the care of a mysterious society – the Guild. Questioning the limits of the impossible, Nick is desperate to find a way back to the life he left behind. Yet with the future of time itself hanging in the balance, could it be that the girl who first captured his heart has had the answers all along? Can Nick find a way to return to her?

Author : Katherine Boo
Publisher : Scribe Publications
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781921942440

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Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo Pdf

WINNER OF THE 2012 LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2012 US NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the world’s most lively but treacherous cities. Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport and, as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees ‘a fortune beyond counting’ in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter — Annawadi’s ‘most-everything girl’ — will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a 15-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call ‘the full enjoy’. But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi. With intelligence, humour, and deep insight into what connects human beings in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the 21st century’s hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget. PRAISE FOR KATHERINE BOO ‘Boo's meticulous work is a must for India watchers, of course, but it is also a great example of the power of what used to be known as immersion journalism. And a cracking read.’ The Age ‘[An] exquisitely accomplished first book.’ The New York Times

Author : Govind Raghunath Dabholkar
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt., Limited
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X030121410

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Shri Sai Satcharita by Govind Raghunath Dabholkar Pdf

Author : Diksha Basu
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451498915

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The Windfall by Diksha Basu Pdf

"For the past thirty years, Mr. and Mrs. Jha's lives have been defined by cramped spaces, cut corners, gossipy neighbors, and the small dramas of stolen yoga pants and stale marriages. They thought they'd settled comfortably into their golden years, pleased with their son's acceptance into an American business school. But then Mr. Jha comes into an enormous and unexpected sum of money, and moves his wife from their housing complex in East Delhi to the super-rich side of town, where he becomes eager to fit in as a man of status"--]cProvided by publisher.

Author : Marissa Meyer
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781466800113

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Cinder by Marissa Meyer Pdf

The #1 New York Times Bestselling Series! Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai's, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world's future. Marissa Meyer on Cinder, writing, and leading men Which of your characters is most like you? I wish I could say that I'm clever and mechanically-minded like Cinder, but no—I can't fix anything. I'm much more like Cress, who makes a brief cameo in Cinder and then takes a more starring role in the third book. She's a romantic and a daydreamer and maybe a little on the naïve side—things that could be said about me too—although she does find courage when it's needed most. I think we'd all like to believe we'd have that same inner strength if we ever needed it. Where do you write? I have a home office that I've decorated with vintage fairy tale treasures that I've collected (my favorite is a Cinderella cookie jar from the forties) and NaNoWriMo posters, but sometimes writing there starts to feel too much like work. On those days I'll write in bed or take my laptop out for coffee or lunch. If you were stranded on a desert island, which character from Cinder would you want with you? Cinder, definitely! She has an internet connection in her brain, complete with the ability to send and receive comms (which are similar to e-mails). We'd just have enough time to enjoy some fresh coconut before we were rescued. The next book in the Lunar Chronicles is called Scarlet, and is about Little Red Riding Hood. What is appealing to you most about this character as you work on the book? Scarlet is awesome—she's very independent, a bit temperamental, and has an outspokenness that tends to get her in trouble sometimes. She was raised by her grandmother, an ex-military pilot who now owns a small farm in southern France, who not only taught Scarlet how to fly a spaceship and shoot a gun, but also to have a healthy respect and appreciation for nature. I guess that's a lot of things that appeal to me about her, but she's been a really fun character to write! (The two leading men in Scarlet, Wolf and Captain Thorne, aren't half bad either.)

Author : Gyan Prakash
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691142845

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Mumbai Fables by Gyan Prakash Pdf

Starting from the catastrophic floods and terrorist attacks of recent years, Prakash reaches back to the sixteenth-century Portuguese conquest to reveal the stories behind Mumbai's historic journey. Examining Mumbai's role as a symbol of opportunity and reinvention, he looks at its nineteenth-century development under British rule and its twentieth-century emergence as a fabled city on the sea. Different layers of urban experience come to light as he recounts the narratives of the Nanavati murder trial and the rise and fall of the tabloid Blitz, and Mumbai's transformation from the red city of trade unions and communists into the saffron city of Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena. Starry-eyed planners and elite visionaries, cynical leaders and violent politicians of the street, land sharks and underworld dons jostle with ordinary citizens and poor immigrants as the city copes with the dashed dreams of postcolonial urban life and lurches into the seductions of globalization. --