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"Aisha is a precocious seventeen-year-old who idolizes her mother and wishes to have a better relationship with her older brother. Twenty-three-year-old Danish has never been able to do anything that would make his parents proud, living as he is in the shadow of his genius younger brother...

At twenty-five, life's innumerable entanglements are getting to Arshi. Her blonde American step-mom's trying too hard (she's taken to welcoming guests with a traditional aarti). The gorgeous guy who has Arshi all flushed and dreamy doesn't seem to be trying at all (he's the Ice Prince who thaws...

When Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman, News Corporation, blew up more than $870 million buying Star TV from Richard Li in the early 1990s, analysts were dismayed. Why on earth had Murdoch invested in a pan-Asian broadcaster that was neither fish nor fowl? More than twenty-five years later...

As the wine and conversation begin to flow at a reunion between six women, who were friends at school, memories start to surface- some happy, others bittersweet and a few that are downright poisonous... Forced to confront dark secrets that they thought lay buried deep in the past, the women...

The narrator notices a mark on the wall, and there starts his monologue on religion, self-reflection, nature, and uncertainties of life...

A heart-warming tale reminding us that love is more important than possessions...

The story starts on a train, when the narrator looks up from her...

The story contains an impressionistic account of a string quartet...

The Searchlight starts with a group of friends having a drink at an outdoor cafe in London one night. An elderly lady tells the story about her ancestor which sounds very strange. Is she really sane?...

A Heron speaks as if he's a human being, thinking more about everything that he sees and he tries to figure out the truth about existence...

Isabella is a happy, middle aged...

Kew Gardens is a story of four pairs of people and shows the oddness in the decisions that shape human lives...

This story brings together Roderick Serle and Ruth Anning, two different personalities failing to communicate meaningfully. Serle is high with self-esteem and Anning on the other hand has retreated into a tiny world which excludes any dangers of engagement...

A Haunted House is a story of struggle, loss, commitment, connection, love and acceptance. It is narrated in the first person by an unnamed female narrator. A deceased man and woman roam the house for the majority of the story till they find what it is they are looking for...