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IF YOU TAKE JINNAH`S EARLY POLITICAL CAREER, WHEN HE CAME BACK FROM LONDON IN 1897 AFTER FINISHING LAW, HE WAS TRULY SECULAR. LIAQAT ALI KHAN WENT TO ENGLAND AND CONVINCED JINNAH THAT HE SHOULD JOIN THE MUSLIM LEAGUE AND RETURN TO INDIA. WHEN THE PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS WERE HELD IN THE WINTER OF 1937 IN INDIA, THE MUSLIM LEAGUE FARED BADLY IN ALL MUSLIM AREAS. JINNAH THEN REALISED THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY BUT TO DEMAND A SEPARATE STATE FOR MUSLIMS. IT WAS A TURNING POINT, BOTH FOR JINNAH AND INDIA. THERE WAS AN INTERESTING INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED IN AUGUST 1947. IN HIS LAST DAYS HE MET INDIA`S AMBASSADOR TO PAKISTAN SRI PRAKASA AND TOLD HIM THAT CREATING PAKISTAN WAS HIS BIGGEST MISTAKE. HE ASKED SRI PRAKASA TO CONVEY TO JAWAHARLAL NEHRU THAT HE WANTED TO RETURN TO INDIA AND SETTLE DOWN IN JINNAH HOUSE IN MUMBAI.
HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE KING WHO SACRIFICED HIS OWN FLESH TO KEEP HIS WORD TO A PIGEON? OR ABOUT THE THRONE THAT GIVES ANYONE WHO SITS ON IT THE UNIQUE ABILITY TO DISPENSE JUSTICE! AND HOW ABOUT THE SCULPTOR WHO MANAGED TO MAKE MAGNIFICENT STATUES WITH NO HANDS AT ALL? THERE`S SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE IN THIS COLLECTION OF TALES OF WISDOM AND WIT! FROM QUARRELS AMONG GODS AND THE FOLLIES OF GREAT SAGES TO THE BENEVOLENCE OF KINGS AND THE VIRTUES OF ORDINARY MORTALS, SUDHA MURTY SPINS FRESH ACCOUNTS OF LESSER-KNOWN STORIES IN INDIAN MYTHOLOGY. ACCOMPANIED BY FANTASTICAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND NARRATED IN AN UNASSUMING FASHION, THE SAGE WITH TWO HORNS IS SURE TO DELIGHT FANS OF THE BELOVED STORYTELLER.
A HOUSE DIVIDED, THE THIRD VOLUME OF THE TRILOGY THAT BEGAN WITH THE GOOD EARTH AND SONS, IS A POWERFUL PORTRAYAL OF CHINA IN THE MIDST OF REVOLUTION. WANG YUAN IS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE OPPOSING IDEAS OF DIFFERENT GENERATIONS. AFTER 6 YEARS ABROAD, YUAN RETURNS TO CHINA IN THE MIDDLE OF A PEASANT UPRISING. HIS COUSIN IS A CAPTAIN IN THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMY, HIS SISTER HAS SCANDALIZED THE FAMILY BY HER PREMARITAL PREGNANCY, AND HIS WARLORD FATHER CONTINUES TO CLING TO HIS TRADITIONAL IDEALS. IT IS THROUGH YUAN`S EFFORTS THAT A KIND OF PEACE IS RESTORED TO THE FAMILY.
All of a sudden, he got up in the middle of the night as he heard some prominent sound as if some glass broke somewhere. He searched the room to find the origin of the sound. When he realised that the sound was of the door bolt, he was shocked. He remembered that he had bolted the door securely but now the bolt had come off automatically. The door started opening slowly, again automatically. Jagannath was confined to the place where he was, there was a very old man standing at the door. He was totally bald, not even a single hair on his abnormally long head. His face was over wrinkled. The high cheek bones were very prominent. His body resembled a skeleton. But his eyes, they were sparkling as if like fire. The old man looked intently at Jagannath. Jagannath screamed loudly, but to his surprise no voice came out. The old man gestured him to follow him. Jagannath started walking. He did not want to but he had lost all control over his will power. He wanted to gather all his strength, he wanted to run away, but his legs were not obeying his mind. Where were the two leading? Ratnakar Matkari takes his readers to a novel place, totally different from the usual sights; he takes them to an unknown destination; to a fearsome, mystic, anonymous land. The readers are equally thrilled. They keep on reading page after page hauntingly.The stories here will surely hypnotize the young readers.
In this interracial lesbian love story, Ira and Sade tried to provide a sanctuary for people like them - people who, due to life, had to realize the difference between the family you're borne into and the family you choose. Ira, a Korean who moved to the Philippines to study English, discovered what this meant when her family cut her out of their lives after a viral video on social media revealed she's a lesbian. Sade, a Filipina college student, found out what choosing your own family means when she had to leave her own home as she constantly witnessed how her mother suffered from her father's misogyny. The two then built the Purple House, which opened its doors to people like them who were shunned by their own family too for a variety of reasons - political differences, lack of support, among others. As they protect and take care of their new home, feelings start to develop between the two of them - but Ira would rather not take the risk, as the Purple House may see its doors shut close if feelings get in the way. Sade, on the other hand, wants to give it a try. Will this difference in approaching this thing called love strengthen the Purple House, or will it just destroy it?
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