This book is very special as it has precious gems. These gems are our moments together. Mom and I spent very special moments together after everyone left us after Dad passed away. Just the two of us were in the apartment, and we were discovering our lives together. My visits to India are short; by March, I return to Canada. I am not able to take the dry heat. Interestingly this year, many people from India and Delhi in special felt a different heat. The wrath of Corona. Many families were affected, and we soon became headlines with the Delta variant. I lost 8 family and friends. We were already grieving Dad’s loss, and now we had these sudden demises. Maa became clingy to her phone and kept a tab of who was with us and who wasn’t. She looked lost. My brother called us and motivated us so, did all the grandsons; Mom enjoys talking to her grandson. I persuaded Mom that we needed to go to Canada as my son was waiting. Mom loves India, her plants, her friends and then she showed me her diary where she wrote her poetry. Mom loves to write Bengali poems, and she loves to recite them. The books title is Maa Beti because people in the Orchid petal colony, Gurgaon, call us by that name. This was first coined when we took our first Covid jab. Incidentally, ninety percent of the people in Gurgaon have taken the jab.

Indian cinema is the only body of world cinema that depicts courtesans as important characters. In early films courtesan characters transmitted Indian classical dance, music and aesthetics to large audiences. They represent the nation's past, tracing their heritage to the fourth-century Kamasutra and to nineteenth-century courtly cultures, but they are also the first group of modern women in Hindi films. They are working professionals living on their own or in matrilineal families. Like male protagonists, they travel widely and develop networks of friends and chosen kin. They have relations with men outside marriage and become single mothers. Courtesan films are heroine-oriented and almost every major female actor has played this role. Challenging received wisdom, Vanita demonstrates that a larger number of courtesans in Bombay cinema are Hindu and indeterminate than are Muslim, and that films depict their culture as hybrid Hindu-Muslim, not Islamicate. Courtesans speak in the ambiguous voice of the modern nation, inviting spectators to seize pleasure here and now but also to search for the meaning of life. Vanita's groundbreaking study of courtesans and courtesan imagery in 235 films brings fresh evidence to show that the courtesan figure shapes the modern Indian erotic, political and religious imagination.

This is an emotional and spiritual love story of a mother son duo. How a mother sacrifice many things for her child but the boy doesn't recognise it. How the boy treat hia mother like a worst abd drop her at orphan home, from where some day the mother picks the same child in past.. when the boy gets to know this truth, what happened? Who created this miscommunication, trap and disturbances between the relationship. ? All you will get to know inside this script. This is a story cum a film script.

Love looks preety on you is a collaborative anthology featuring authors exploring love in all forms. From romance to heartbeat,resielence to self discovery, the collection captures the universal experience of love through poetry, short stories and essays.Readers are invited to dive into a heartfelt exploration of lovers power to inspire, heal and transform.

Meet Aahil Khan, an aspiring CA student, who is forced to study as his parents want him to have a bright career. Carefree and ignorant about studies, Aahil loves to party with his friends. He runs into the love of his life in the CA classes and falls for her at first sight without knowing that she belongs to a different religion. One fine day, his elder sister walks into his room and catches Aahil kissing his girlfriend. The real problem arises when their parents get to know about their relationship. Will their love be successful? Will Aahil get the love of his life or will they be separated forever? Are they Made for Each Other?

We exist. We like. We love. We lose. We grieve. We reflect. We move on. We learn. Finally, we live. Each verse and shayari in my poetic endeavour is a sincere, raw and honest reflection of my life’s greatest learning’s, purest thoughts, and deepest emotions. Written from my heart (dil se), these poems are seemingly ordinary yet powerful everyday emotions, thoughts and situations that we experience but tend to not necessarily ponder upon as we get preoccupied with the mundane aspects of our lives. Based on a combination of intimate observations of the world and deeply personal experiences of the poet, these poems and shayari’s cover a myriad range of topics from approaching life with the right mindset to taking control of our circumstances, to living in the moment, to taking risks to succeed in life, to finding faith, to experiencing and exhibiting love, compassion, joy ,fear, worry , to dealing with sorrows and failures. Underlying the message throughout the various sections in the book is a heartfelt message of optimism and positivity Compiling them over a __ of years, the poet wishes for the readers to pause, assimilate and most importantly relate to her thoughts, hoping to enable a community of shared dialogue and interaction. For when all else fails, there are words. And in the end, words will set us free.