Tag: golden saffron

“…We’ll get married, but I’ll pay you a monthly salary to behave and appear for all practical purposes as my wife…If you agree, the marriage vows can be taken on the phone on Saturday, since I have an hour free in the morning.”

Shahira, a young, divorced mother of a seven-year-old son, wants nothing to do with a man, ever again. But circumstances have forced her hand, and Hussain’s unusual proposition leaves her secretly relieved. As per their contract, she’ll have his name, will be paid to look after his ailing mother and motherless daughter and will be left well alone by him. Perfect!

Until her new husband decides to stop playing by the rules.

Hussain is suave and rich. He is nobody’s fool…and is not about to be bested by the ex-schoolteacher he is married to. He has Shahira in his sights and she has to have all her wits about her in order to hold him at arm’s length. Will she ever be ready for the kind of marriage he wants?

Outwardly Malini is a contented, sixty-something grandmother with a loving family and everything a person could wish for. But Malini has lived her entire life with a secret confined to the deepest recesses of her heart.

Haunted by the past, she travels to Kumbakonam, her native town, which she had left years ago. There, she comes face-to-face with her long-lost love.

After forty years, will Malini be able to reclaim her own life, when love comes knocking at her door once again?

Young, handsome Ashok is a software engineer working in the US—the ‘perfect groom’. Coerced into an arranged marriage with Ashok, Nithya discovers a long-held secret that turns her marriage into a farce.

When Nithya comes face to face with Vasu, her childhood friend, and old suitor before he ran away, she is forced to re-evaluate her life, and consider the reasons she has remained married to Ashok. And, as love blossoms between them, Vasu learns the secret that she has been hiding.

Standing on a crossroads, Nithya has to make a choice about her life. Will she stand guard over the lie of her perfect marriage, or will she have the courage to find her own truth?

“Dependent!!?”

Mythili and Siddharth realize that being newlywed in a foreign country is very different from being passionately in love, long-distance.

She has just moved to the Philippines to be with the love of her life and new husband, Siddharth. After being a hard-as-nails reporter who covered crime stories of the goriest kind, Mythili is now just a ‘dependent’. On top of that, unemployment, encounters with expat-wives and culture shock leave her feeling like she has fallen down a rabbit hole. Will their love survive, or will she become just another unhappily married expatriate wife?

Will this real life Alice ever embrace her Wonderland?

On the wings of a mid-life crisis, thirty-something Geetanjali Rao is back in her parent’s house in India. Armed with an astrologer’s prediction that ‘Jupiter is looking out for her’, she has to start a new life from scratch; new friends, new job, and a new love.

Throughout this journey, her journal faithfully captures the events that unfold and provides us with a ringside view of Geetanjali’s hopes, fears, discoveries and adventures that mirror so many of our own.

Heartwarmingly funny and occasionally sad, this is a poignant story of a woman who, despite the risk involved,  opens herself up to falling crazily in love.

Seema had everything a girl could wish for; stunningly beautiful and financially secure, she has a great job and a handsome, successful, caring fiancé. But then she loses it all.

A freak accident leaves her horribly burnt and in terrible pain. Her hospital bills are mounting, her job is at stake and she will carry the scars to her grave. Worst of all, her fiancé seems to be losing interest in her.

Seema thinks she has nothing left to live for, but her doctor is determined to heal and get her back on her feet—whether she wants to or not.

With his faith as her bedrock, Seema learns to stand again and reclaim all that she had lost, including her true love.

Prabhat is standing at a crossroads—torn between a childhood love and his wife, he has a decision to make. Nitya or Meeta?

Nitya and Prabhat were deeply in love, until fate intervened and ripped the two apart. Years later, married to Meeta and seemingly settled, Prabhat finds a written trail that suggests that Nitya is waiting for him. With his devoted wife beside him, he embarks on a journey to discover the truth of his tragic past, and to find the woman he has always loved. Time is running out for all three of them, though, and finding Nitya becomes imperative.

Three lives, three journeys, one destination. Is love about winning and losing, or about loving and letting go?

Nadeem is trapped in Karachi, in self-destruct mode. His heart is in New York, the city of his dreams, where he left behind the innocence of his youth and the woman he loved more than life. Love, respect and trust have long since disappeared from his marriage. He hates his job, his wife and most of all, himself.

In a lyrical narrative that shuttles between New York and Karachi and between time and time zones, ‘Seasons of Silence’ maps the reflexive disintegration of a marriage through the prism of the past.

As Nadeem and Mehreen struggle with questions of identity, expectations from relationships and notions of what fulfillment means—and meant—the book presents an excoriating portrayal of the vicious politics within relationships, rather than a rose-tinted depiction of pain and sentimentality.

Can Nadeem break the silence and redeem himself, or is it already too late?

Riya seems to have lost everything—the man she loves to another woman, her husband to death and her soul to fear.

An unexpected meeting with her first love, Ryan, stirs up long repressed feelings but also allows her to move out of the long shadow of the past. Unburdened, she feels free to pursue her dream of opening an art gallery and the intriguing and handsome artist, Rehaan. But when Ryan shows up in her life again and memories of her marriage refuse to fade away, Riya must find the courage to reconcile her past and present.

For Riya, life is a canvas of dreams. Can she distinguish between reality and fantasy?