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Alka Joshi
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The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1)
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2020
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The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2)
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2021
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The Perfumist of Paris (The Jaipur Trilogy, #3)
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2023
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Six Days in Bombay
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The Complete Jaipur Trilogy
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Women Inspired : Fearless Voices
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The Sari vs. Modern India
Earlier this year, Architecture faculty at Ansal University in Gurgaon, just outside New Delhi, received an email from the registrar to attend a convocation. It requested formal dress: "trouser, coat and tie for men" and "saris for women." This sparked a lively, funny, albeit very polite, conversation on WhatsApp among the female faculty, who normally wear trousers, Western shirts/tops, or salwar
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“Success was ephemeral—and fluid—as I’d found out the hard way. It came. It went. It changed you from the outside, but not from the inside. Inside, I was still the same girl who dreamed of a destiny greater than she was allowed. Did I really need the house to prove I had skill, talent, ambition, intelligence? What if—”
― The Henna Artist
― The Henna Artist
“there were three kinds of karma: the accumulated karma from all our past lives; the karma we created in this life; and the karma we stored to ripen in our future lives.”
― The Henna Artist
― The Henna Artist
“People are more gullible and less compassionate than any of us want to believe.”
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― The Henna Artist
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“I should have known that Moti-Lal would figure it out. More than once, he’s told me selling gold requires an insight into human nature. He says you must be able to discern the intensity of a customer’s desire by looking into their eyes. That will tell you what to show, what to hold back, and how much the customer is willing to part with.”
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― The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
“Wasn't it enough that our bodies, our limbs hurt? Why did we also have to hurt in our heart, the pain tucked so deeply in the soft tissue that we couldn't just pluck it out?”
― Six Days in Bombay
― Six Days in Bombay
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Hi Alka, it's great to be connected. If you get a chance, I'd love for you to read my book - "Undivided"
Great cultures endure even through tough tests. Despite some voices being louder on the global stage, Undivided aims to amplify a significant yet often overlooked human event in the West: the Partition of India.
In a heinous wave of partisan bloodshed, almost 2 million people are killed, 15 million are displaced and about 75,000 women are subjected to unimaginable violence during India's partition into Pakistan in 1947. The scars of those times endure across multiple generations even today, over seventy-five years later. But what if this Partition hadn’t taken place?
Couched in an alternative historical 1940s and 1950s India, Undivided centers on this possibility as the backdrop to this story.
Summer 1945 is a messy time and death is in the air. World War Two has consumed 75 million lives, and, in the middle of it all, India loses most of its leadership to a series of dubious accidents. With only Wazir Jahan and his loyal ally Timur Mirza left to govern, an undivided India gains independence from British rule in 1947. But Mirza has his own plans; he starts by deploying his “Hitler-inspired” secret police to enforce sectarian control over a secular society.
Elsewhere, Ram and Fatima, an ordinary inter-faith couple's lives are suddenly disrupted, when a group of unlikely rebels - tenured in their own bitter experiences - seeks to retaliate against Mirza. Led by Shiva, the group desperately needs Ram's help. But Ram and Fatima refuse to cooperate, thrusting themselves into a roller coaster of astonishing events and self-discoveries.
Heather Sangster edited this work. Heather has copy edited and proof-read Margaret Atwood’s poetry and prose, including The Testaments, the 2019 Booker Prize – winning sequel to The Handmaids Tale. She also collaborated with Rohinton Mistry on the international acclaimed bestseller (1996 Booker Prize shortlist), A Fine Balance.
I hope you find the premise interesting enough to read the book. Thank you for being part of this journey – all profits will be donated to charity.
Warm regards,
Sid
Thank you for accepting the request I want to read your book The Henna Artist and may other of yout books
Sara wrote: "Alka, delighted to have you as a friend."Thanks, Sara!
Dana wrote: "Thank you for the friend request! It's an honor!🤗🤗🤗🤗
Can't wait to read some of your reviews."
Looking forward!
Alka
Thank you for the friend request! It's an honor!🤗🤗🤗🤗
Can't wait to read some of your reviews.
