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Ohari, KL Mohana Varma, translated from the Malayalam by Ministhy S
Kerala, the 1990s. Mini Balachandran is a homemaker. But with both her father and brother dead in an accident, she is left with no other choice but to come on board as the managing director of Dhanwantari Herbal Products Limited, their Kochi-based Ayurveda company. One day, out of the blue, covert attempts at a takeover are discovered. Dhanwantari’s shares are being bought at a furious pace; the players are unknown.
Tensions simmer. The company must be saved. A battle is at hand.
Winner of the 1993 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, KL Mohana Varma’s Ohari is an epic, edge-of-the-seat tale about what it takes for the feisty Mini Balachandran to fight an aggressive takeover bid.
Mother Mine, Sheeba Shah
Priya. Breathtakingly beautiful, impetuous, ambitious. Her dream of becoming a movie star drives her to do the impossible: abandon an eight-year-old daughter, a good husband and a luxurious life in Kathmandu and follow Rohit, a film producer on the make, to Mumbai – a megacity where dreams bite the dust and harsh reality strikes swiftly. As Priya soon discovers, her life spirals downwards from broken promises, to sleazy casting couches and penury – plunging her into a world where only drugs...
