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After his mother loses her battle against cancer, Andrew Donavan
struggles through his childhood and teenage years. His wealthy
father gives him the best education money could buy but unable to
offer him love and compassion. They drift apart and Andrew ends up
in a teaching position at the University of Victoria. But his heart
is empty and soul yearns for adventure. So he escapes. He goes to
Manali, a destination resort in the Himalayas where once as a young
boy he had spent several months and had found his first love. He
wonders if he would meet her again? In this far away place an ugly
truth about his father emerges that changes his life, forever. He
is compelled to embark on a mission that could not only put his
life in jeopardy but also destroy his father. Distraught and
confused he plunges himself irrationally into the riskiest solution
of once and for all exposing the culprits responsible for Lalita's
sad fate in order to bring justice to her and her family and
hopefully find peace in his soul. Then something extraordinary
happens. Andrew discovers an ugly truth about his father and he
learns a strange fact about his relationship with Jyoti. His world
comes crushing around him and he is now enraged and wants to
overtly fight the villains including his own father. He is willing
to take all the risks as the situation becomes do or die for him.
To Andrew's amazement his father suddenly appears unannounced in
Manali. Andrew is not sure what his father came to Manali for and
refuses to even see him. Finally his father convinces Andrew to
meet with him to hear out his side of the story. For the first time
in his life Andrew's father opens his heart and reveals the truth
to both Andrew and Jyoti. She is furious and wants nothing to do
with Andrew or his father. But Andrew's father discloses the real
purpose of his return to Manali and presents a plan to apprehend
the people who were responsible for the violence towards Lalita.
The plan is full of flaws but the persuasive nature of Andrew's
father prevails. Together they all walk into a death trap. Will
they all perish due to their flawed plan? Will Lalita's family ever
get justice for what happened to Lalita? Will Jyoti meet the same
fate as Lalita did twenty years ago? Does Andrew's father have an
alternative plan that he will not share with his son? Answers to
these questions are revealed by what Andrew does next.
Unpredictable and utterly unique love triangle, Pink Balcony Silver
Moon is a story of the untouchable class of India and their tumulus
struggle of fighting for their rights by breaking centuries old
shackles of traditions.
In broad daylight, on a highway in Saudi Arabia, a young American
couple is brutally murdered and their two-year old son abducted.
Matt Slater, an FBI counter terrorism specialist is sent to Saudi
Arabia to solve the murder and to recover the two-year old abducted
son. Matt feels helpless in a bureaucratic Arabian world and finds
him being toyed with by the murderer who strikes again and this
time in Abu Dhabi and kills another young American couple and
abducts their four-year old daughter. Walking the dangerous maze of
lies and deceit of Arabian justice system he uncovers a sinister
scheme of Al Qaeda preparing to kill tens of thousands of American.
Would he have enough time to save the abducted children and stop Al
Qaeda in joining forces with Iraq in launching their murderous
campaign?
With blood on his hands, an embittered David runs away from the
Falkland War. He travels through Europe to find a new beginning.
Wandering through various cities he remains dissatisfied until he
arrives in Florence where he becomes entangled in the tumulus world
of the Zuccato sisters. Maria and Kathleen Zuccato are unaware of
their upcoming fate as David arrives to fill their world with
murder and mystery.
A young woman CIA agent, working under cover in Maasai Mara, Kenya
is brutally murdered. Matt Slater, an FBI Special Agent, is
assigned to the case. Upon arrival in Kenya, Matt discovers an
inexplicable link between the murdered agent, international
terrorist organizations and the senior Kenyan politicians. As
events unfold it seems that scores of innocent Kenyans are killed
for political gains and thousands of elephants are slaughtered to
fund terrorist activities. Matt's involvement to stop the killing
and butchering brings the whole political relationship between
Kenya and the USA to the brink of collapse. The clock is ticking
and Matt has only a few days to bring the perpetrators to justice.
India is explained as the land of many experiences from where, when
you leave, you take only half of you because the other half you
lose due to dysentery, nausea, vomiting, sickness and such other
weight-loss techniques-Dr. Atkins paradise, you might say. Roots?
Hell no. A cruel twist of kismet, or rather a need of employment to
pay alimony, brought me back to my country of birth, India, that I
had left almost a quarter of a century ago seeking greener pastures
overseas. But it was perhaps a foible of karma that upon returning
and during our two years of staying in India, we lived in the two
most amazing and diagonally opposite in nature cities for an equal
amount of time-Calcutta, the City of Joy, and New Delhi, the City
of Sorrows. Although considered fictional, the story of City of Joy
is based on true characters. It revolves around the trials and
tribulations of a young Polish priest, the hardship endured by a
rickshaw puller, and the experiences of a young American doctor. My
stories are about the trials and tribulations of a
non-confrontational Canadian engineering executive (me...really)
and his thrill-junky Canadian doctor wife. I must admit it was
rather nostalgic for me to return to my home country after a
three-decade absence. I guess after the sudden loss of my job, I
was very thankful to find not only a well-paid, senior position but
also to have the opportunity to come back to my country of
birth-all expenses paid. Besides, ever since I watched 'Roots, ' I
was convinced that only by returning to India would I find answers
to all those questions that had been hounding me for a very long
time. You know the questions we all tend to think of when we lose a
job through no fault of our own, like: Is there a god? Why me? Will
I find peace? Will I come back as a woman in my next life? Okay,
maybe not the last one, that may be my crazy thinking because just
once I would like a chance to find the meaning of life in morning
coffees, shopping trips, elaborate hairdos, and hours in beauty
salons and spas while some sucker who spent half his life educating
himself looked after me, worshiped me and cared for all my needs.
Anyway, here I was, back in India and thankful for being gainfully
employed. Here is an odd thing. Just when one thinks that one knows
everything about something, one is always inevitably in for a
surprise. I thought I knew everything about my country. You know,
the corruption, bad service, and dirty politics. No, no, I am not
talking about Canada. I am talking about India. Wait a minute. Come
to think of it, it could well be Canada. Anyway, this time I am
talking about India. Read my humorous, misadventure stories of how
as an Indian I barely survived India and at the same time my wife
as a Canadian thrived in this blessed place. These stories may give
you an insight to how to survive corporate India or die laughing.
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