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Popular author, veteran journalist, film-web-TV content writer and playwright Praful Shah has published around 50 books in four languages. 'Kutch File', 'Dadlo', 'Agnija', 'Carolina Reaper' and 'Drishyam-Adrishyam' are some of his most acclaimed works. Now, Praful Shah's new romantic thriller novel 'Love You Kutch' has come to rightfully join this list

Devaki of the Mahabharata was freed by her son Krishna after years of imprisonment. I am the Devaki of today, my son asked after years, who was his father?

How could an innocent girl who was raped repeatedly by two men at the age of twelve and made pregnant give an answer after twenty years?

But the time had come to get an answer, to demand justice. I started a fight that no one had ever heard of. But I had no weapons. I did not know in which corner of the world the evil ones who had caused my plight were now, my family had abandoned me, people were telling me to forget the past, lawyers were hesitant to take my case, the police did not want to register my complaint. Everyone was asking where was the proof of the crime?
But I had to answer my son who was his father! I had to be freed from my own prison without waiting for a savior!

In the end, whether I got an answer or not, I had to fight.

I am Devaki Parmar, and this is the story of my struggle. Support me or not, I hope you will listen, right?

On that chowpati, making his way through the crowd of dusk, he reached the boats that were far away in the sand. Kushan sat there, a plank was stuck in front of one of the boats. In front of him, the sea spread out to the edge of the horizon. Uncovered. Its roaring waves were forming a circle around him alone, rushing like a swarm of bees. The last rays of the sun were shining on his head like gems. The tidal waves were rushing right up to his feet, inviting him to set out on a sea voyage. Although he was in the boat, this was not the journey, nor was he going anywhere. Like a boat, he was stuck in the sand. Last night, his mother had made him sit in front of her and made her bequeath her will, it was the will of dreams. And she had said something that had been buried deep in the soil of her mind for years. He was radiant. Not all the holes buried deep in the earth always contain the treasure of diamonds, sometimes there are also the roaring roars. He had called Ekta here to give that will. He was afraid of what Ekta would say! - Varsha Adalja

Imagine: You are enjoying masala chai on a comfortable sofa in the morning, the newspaper spread out in front of you. The front page headline catches your attention - ten mentally ill lunatics have escaped from the city's biggest mental asylum. They are creating chaos somewhere in the city. Maybe they are in the same streets around you, where you walk every day. That is the interesting story of 'Dus Pagal'.

Ten patients mysteriously disappear from the city's biggest mental institution, Guptpur Madhya Pradesh. While the police are busy searching for the ten lunatics, a series of murders take place in the city. Murders start happening in different areas of the city. According to the evidence found by the police, one of the missing lunatics has a hand in every murder.

This psychological suspense thriller will make you shiver, walking the thin line between sanity and madness

In our childhood, we all used to insist on telling stories to our grandmothers and granddaughters. Most of the stories were about kings and queens. The stories would start with a single sentence that... There was a king and a queen.

...and then a beautiful story that seemed like a fairy tale would begin. In those stories, sometimes when the queens got angry, the kings would build a palace for them and sometimes when the kings went to war, the queens would wait for them alone.

This book contains stories from the lives of those kings and queens, which your grandmother may or may not have told you. Some stories were buried in the pages of history, while some are still waiting to be told, hidden somewhere in the arch of a ruined fort or in the broken embankment of a dried-up lake of the palace of an angry queen. These love stories of kings and queens from different periods and regions were in the womb of our history, which are placed here. Over time, legends were added to these stories and sometimes the story and legend became one

Hemant's hand was cold - and he was speaking in a damp voice - 'J... V... Aditya's will... But Shobhana, it seems to me that - I have spent the past years of my life in your separation, but now - in our coming days - will I be able to bear the separation? Sometimes such a situation arises in life that a person cannot move out of the circle in which he has settled. Like water that has settled in a pond.

Rajesh Antani's stories artistically express the feelings of the characters, the feelings of the characters amidst special circumstances, and also reveal the complexity of human life and human relationships with ease, ease, and subtle writing

The heroine of this story keeps going to her father to get rid of her disliked husband; Sometimes she goes to her father. Whether it happens to the father and the in-laws or not. In the story that reaches the end of the divorce, something pleasant happens, due to which the two who do not understand each other; abandon their narrow understanding and start understanding, liking, and accepting each other. The way the female characters of this story that reaches the end of the divorce bring the story to a happy end through their understanding and patience is unparalleled. In this story with a rural setting, the creator has vividly depicted the fickle moods of women of all ages; the Mahabharata of their minds, the unstable moments of women's lives

A love story caught in a whirlwind of misunderstandings:

Under what circumstances did the heroine Vaidehi have to undergo a trial by fire to prove the purity and sanctity of her friendship?

Will the invisible, subtle fire of a misunderstanding between two friends snuff out the flame of friendship?

Who came as a savior in the life of the protagonist Vaidehi to take her life to a certain destination?

Why couldn't Vaidehi prevent the misunderstanding that was arising even with that savior?

So on the other hand, what kind of revenge fire has Jessica been caught up in?

This novel begins with the arrival of a young man who comes to live with a couple and goes back a week; it is of that period. If the young man does not yet connect with the husband and wife of the house he has come to, he has to go back. But in this one week period; the rhythm and turmoil that the arrival of the young man creates at the level of the husband and wife, especially the wife's mind; has been wonderfully depicted in this story