The Great Indian Love Story

Author : Ira Trivedi
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184751605
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Indian Love Story written by Ira Trivedi and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A darkly fascinating snapshot of the glittering and brittle lives of the rich and famous of Delhi, its glamourous page 3 swish-set The Great Indian Love Story is set in a world where appearances mean everything and nothing is as it seems. There’s no time for love in a world that revolves around the latest Ferraris, the hottest nightclubs, diamonds, single malts, cocaine and ecstasy. In this whirl of wild parties, sex and drugs we meet Serena Sharma who lives her life one debauched night at a time, always falling for the wrong men. Her life is a roller-coaster ride: her father’s death followed by her mother’s remarriage, a broken heart and a lost love. Adding to this is her torrid affair with Amar Khanna—a trophy husband, coke addict and serial adulterer. Riya, jaded by her unsuccessful attempt to find a job in America, returns to Delhi to find the city of her childhood changed beyond recognition. Striking an unlikely friendship with Serena, Riya finds her complacent torpor shattered. The Great Indian Love Story is also the story of Parmeet, Serena’s mother, who looks for passion outside her marriage with disastrous consequences, and S.P. Sharma, Parmeet’s husband, who is driven to violence by her infidelity. Ira Trivedi weaves together sex, revenge, glitz, friendship and a chilling murder to create a potent cocktail in this gripping novel on the perfidious nature of love and power.

Author : Shashi Tharoor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628721596
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Indian Novel written by Shashi Tharoor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this award-winning novel, Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictional but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics. Nothing is sacred in this deliciously irreverent, witty, and deeply intelligent retelling of modern Indian history and the ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata. Alternately outrageous and instructive, hilarious and moving, it is a dazzling tapestry of prose and verse that satirically, but also poignantly, chronicles the struggle for Indian freedom and independence.

Author : Ravinder Singh
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184758677
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Too Had a Love Story written by Ravinder Singh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 10th anniversary edition of I Too had a Love Story brings to life one of the decade's most-loved romance novels with gorgeous illustrations in a brand new design. With a personal note from the author, this book is a collector's edition. It will also make for a fabulous gift. Do love stories ever die? . . . How would you react when a beautiful person comes into your life, and then goes away from you . . . forever? Not all love stories are meant to have a perfect ending. I Too Had a Love Story is one such saga. It is the tender and heartfelt tale of Ravin and Khushi--two people who found each other on a matrimonial site and fell in love . . . until life put their love to the ultimate test. Romantic, emotional and sincere, this heartbreaking true life story has already touched a million hearts. This bestselling novel is a must-read for anyone who believes in the magic of love . . .

Author : Chetna Khanna
Publisher : Sristhi Publishers & Distributors
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Indian Love Stories written by Chetna Khanna and published by Sristhi Publishers & Distributors. This book was released on 2020-12-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Indian Love Stories is a collection of 10 electrifying stories of love and passion. Overflowing with romance, adventures and fun, these short stories will keep you hooked till the very end. 1. Varsha's Wedding Night Varsha and Sandeep are newlyweds and have been saving themselves for marriage. What happens when Varsha and Sandeep are left to their own devices in their marital bedroom? Give in to the magic of firsts with Varsha’s Wedding Nights. 2. Varsha's Honeymoon After their wedding night, Varsha and Sandeep travel to Bangkok for their honeymoon. Newlywed and newly in love, do things get heated up much sooner than either of them expected? Read the story to find out where Varsha and Sandeep’s love takes them. 3. Smriti's First Smriti is young heiress to a large fortune, but she has always been unlucky in love, all her life. She is attracted to her father's friend, the much older and suave Sam Rodriguez, but doesn't believe she would ever act on her attraction. When events rapidly transpire to lock Sam and Smriti together in confinement and in each other's company, will Smriti finally act on her attraction? Will things get heated up between Smriti and Sam? 4. Tanvi's Party - 1 Tanvi is an affluent young woman who is an adventurer at heart. Tanvi organizes a party along with her friend, Natasha, where things get heated up. Will things get out of hand at Tanvi's party? 5. Tanvi's Party - 2 Tanvi can’t forget a man she met at her party. Natasha and Tanvi discuss him, and then they make a plan. Read ahead to find out what happens when Natasha and Tanvi meet him. 6. Aditi's Game Aditi is a voluptuous young woman in her early thirties, working as an Assistant Professor at an acclaimed university. Having had her heart broken once in her twenties, she enjoys playing games with much younger inexperienced men, most of them her college students. But as Aditi starts meeting and spending time with the much older Prof. Gupta, she discovers that her heart, though once broken, is not beyond repair. Will Aditi discover true love or will she go back to her old ways? 7. Amreen's Lover Amreen works as a house help in an upscale apartment complex. Rohit is a resident in the complex visiting his parents from abroad. What happens when the two meet? Read their unusual love story to find out. 8. Amreen's Boyfriend Amreen and Rohit might as well be from different planets. Amreen is a maid servant. Rohit is an NRI, visiting India for a brief period of time. But what happens when love takes over and makes them forget all about their status, money, and creed? 9. Pooja's Passion Pooja is a young widow living with her mother-in-law in her husband's house. One day, Pooja meets her old colleague, Yash, who she had a crush on, even before she got married. Yash, on his part, fell in love with Pooja when he first saw her. What happens as Pooja and Yash meet? Do sparks fly? 10. Anisha's Wedding Anisha is about to be married, but she is yet to get over her ex, Rashi. What happens when Rashi comes to stay over at Anisha's place for her wedding? Do sparks fly?

Author : Ira Trivedi
Publisher : Rupa Publications
ISBN 13 : 9789382277620
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book India in Love written by Ira Trivedi and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2014 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking look at the sexual revolution that is beginning to sweep through urban India. The National Bestseller India in Love: Marriage and Sexuality in the 21st Century is a ground-breaking look at the sexual revolution that is starting to sweep through urban India. Bestselling author Ira Trivedi travelled from Shilling in the northeast to Chennai in the south, Konark in the east to Mumbai in the west and over a dozen other cities and towns in order to gain unprecedented insights into changing sexual habits, marriage and love everywhere in the country. The book explores the mating habits of young Indians on college campuses and in offices, examines the new face of Indian pornography and prostitution, probes India's gay revolution and delves into history, economics and sociology to try and understand how the nation that gave the world the Kamasutra could have become a closed, repressed society with a shockingly high incidence of rape and violence against women the dark underside to the greater sexual freedom that men and women in our cities have begun to enjoy today. Trivedi goes deep into one of the most enduring institutions of Indian society marriage and investigates how it is faring in modern times. She interviews marriage brokers, astrologers, lawyers, relationship counsellors, 'love commandos', parents and nervous young brides and grooms, amongst others, to present a nuanced picture of the state of marriage in the country. She discovers that love marriages are skyrocketing and even the age-old arranged marriage is undergoing a transformation. Also on the rise are divorces, extra-marital affairs, open marriages, live-in-relationships and the like. Supporting her eye-opening reportage with hundreds of interviews, detailed research, authoritative published surveys and discussions with experts on various aspects of sexuality and marriage, Trivedi has written a book that is often startling, sometimes controversial, but is always entertaining and original.

Author : Shahzad Rizvi
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781300696292
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Resident written by Shahzad Rizvi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-02-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British diplomat Nigel adores India and its culture, but not his spoiled wife, Pamela. Instead, he has fallen hopelessly in love with Mehru, a married Muslim princess. When Pamela is murdered, Nigel is imprisoned as the prime suspect, but did he do it? The only one who could help free Nigel is the state's brilliant Jewish prime minister, but he, too, is in prison!

Author : Vivek Shanbhag
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014311168X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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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

Author : Jenny Rosenstrach
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062080911
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dinner: A Love Story written by Jenny Rosenstrach and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by her beloved blog, dinneralovestory.com, Jenny Rosenstrach’s Dinner: A Love Story is many wonderful things: a memoir, a love story, a practical how-to guide for strengthening family bonds by making the most of dinnertime, and a compendium of magnificent, palate-pleasing recipes. Fans of “Pioneer Woman” Ree Drummond, Jessica Seinfeld, Amanda Hesser, Real Simple, and former readers of Cookie magazine will revel in these delectable dishes, and in the unforgettable story of Jenny’s transformation from enthusiastic kitchen novice to family dinnertime doyenne.

Author : Sherman Alexie
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448188563
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian written by Sherman Alexie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all-new edition of the tragicomic smash hit which stormed the New York Times bestseller charts, now featuring an introduction from Markus Zusak. In his first book for young adults, Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written tale, featuring poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, is based on the author's own experiences. It chronicles contemporary adolescence as seen through the eyes of one Native American boy. 'Excellent in every way' Neil Gaiman Illustrated in a contemporary cartoon style by Ellen Forney.

Author : Sudhir Kakar
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 8174369457
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Love Stories written by Sudhir Kakar and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the many enduring fascinations of the love story, a vehicle for the vicarious satisfaction of our hidden desires and obscure longings, is the pleasure we take in its subversion of the conventions that govern the relationship between the sexes. At least, this is true of tales about young lovers who are believed to express the purest of romantic sentiments. This book is a compilation of classic Indian Love Stories.