Lavish action-filled account of the separation, separate lives, and eventual reunion of three brothers: one raised by a Hindu policeman, one raised by a Muslim tailor, and one raised by a Catholic priest.

A dramatic spectacular set in the time of the Mughals at the height of their power and splendor.

"Four seasons. Four colors. Four phases of their lives. Four true historical events. Mausam is a story of timeless love in the face of political hostilities and religious conflict, between a proud Punjabi Air Force officer, Harry and an innocent Kashmiri refugee, Aayat. Set against a landscape that transcends a decade and spans continents, Mausam is a classic journey that transports one into a world of indestructible bonds of love enveloped by the...

"Waqt (Time) is the story of a wealthy family who are separated in a natural disaster. Several years down the line, they aren't united but their lives are strangely interconnected"--Container.

"What Homer's Iliad is to Greek civilization and the great classics of yore are to different nations of the world, the Mahabharat is to India. Written by Rishi Ved Vyas, the ancient philosopher-thinker who was known to be the fountain of all human knowledge. The Mahabharat has been translated in many languages and even presented in ballet form in western and oriental countries. But the Mahabharat is not an abstruse philosophical or religious tract....

Story centers around Anand who zestfully fights cancer, determined to extract as much pleasure from his remaining lifespan as possible and the brooding Dr. Bhaskar who tends Anand in his last days and then writes a book on him which wins a literary prize.

This short novel is an excellent example of Urdu storytelling. It has been written in the different social, cultural and political moods of the twenty-first, sixteenth and eighteenth centuries and in the dialect of their respective times. Joe Farooqui Saheb is one of the master writers of this genre. He is amazing at telling stories. The main theme of this novel is the story of a policeman from Delhi, whose house was in a village in Jaipur, after...