he heard someone calling him, he revolved his stool he was sitting on waiting for his drink to be served in the direction of the voice of a stranger, the man said he was singing the hymn not quite correctly
glesin finished his drink, he looked around the crowded bar, young girls and boys drunkenly sang loud christmas hymns, he ordered another drink, the bar tender gestured him to wait a while, he joined the singing crowd to pass his time
jamie one late night watches a movie, the coward hero musters his will power and takes revenge from all those who had made him a laughing stock, next morning was a usual dry summer day jamie wakes up an absolutely changed man, he had become different , woken up a bold fearless man
archie feeling rather sorry tells walesco he would not be able to pay back the loan, he was bankrupt, walesco looking uninterested and cool in the past would certainly have bashed him up, but the company expected the staff to be well dressed , decent and well behaved
briggs entered the hospital holding a white bouquet, she was an attractive young brunette , tall, proportionate, rosy complexioned, , her gait demanded attention, all eyes in the hospital lobby turned in her direction when she stopped at the reception counter
the private detective narrator early morning finds a blondie eagerly waiting for him since past midnight , thinking it must be a usual case of blackmail he invites her in, she wanted him to find her 1949 model orange mercury two door car that had been stolen from the cheap motel parking where she spent the night
naved makes the hotel owner return in a friendly manner back to where his friends are, he says the owner wanted a favour from him to put in a good name to the commissioner the reason he was taken out, a surprised breath escapes achhe mian
naved tells the proprietor to thrash him where his friends wont see it happening, this pleases the hotel owner, he takes him outside the hotel , naved requests not to redden his face for it would need lots of explaining to be made to his waiting friends
all the friends go in the hotel of achhe mian , once a street crook turned a proprietor using same old rough methods calls in naved to pay his pending dues or get ready for a bashing up
naved standing by the street turned his face every time a luxury car sped past, telling his surprised friends they belonged to his uncles , aunts and rich relatives
the adventure story set in 1809, thomas nicholas was commanding a fleet of five gold loaded ships from peru, cathy brown is saved and the hired killer himself gets killed, cathy"s locket from round her neck is stolen by gerald an afro - american who uses his wife orlena , decides to go treasure hunting alone using the half map of a hidden treasure location in the locket
it was a most beautiful tourist spot , just before they were to return after their holiday was over, nailah twenty two was gone missing, , the fifteen day trip had been most enjoyable for the whole family of three , the parents and nailah the daughter
when harry stepped out of his house for his office , his neighbour martha was busy jogging, she heaved a long sigh, trying hard for quite some time to attract his attention,
one of the signs of good health of your child is his healthy hair, if the health and condition of it is good , a single strand would not come off easily , good diet comprises of rich proteins
The mortals are tested all their lives, hunger, thirst and desire challenge their survival , immortality is above them
red jack hides himself , a sharp shooter kills the gunners chasing the coach, the guard --david sanders was saved , red jack "s horse killed he uses the dead gunners horse and helps the guard to carry the iron safe to safety up to the creek
red jack was a most wanted criminal at large, his posters pasted almost on all the walls , corners declared the catcher of him dead or alive gets a huge reward
red jack won some three thousand dollars at a gambling den, it was a decent amount in comparison to robbing government safes , riding through a deserted stretch towards the turkish creek he hears gunshots
mehemud gaznavi invited boali sena --a famous astrologer of the time to a chamber that had four doors, mehemud gaznavi asked him to demonstrate his knowledge of astrology, by forecasting on a piece of paper out of which door mehemud gaznavi would exit, the graph was made and the astrologer made a prediction and handed out his written answer , the folded paper was to be opened to be read when mehemud gaznavi had chosen a route and stood outside the room
You too annoyed,
The world so cruel--my friends
It is destiny,
That I am turning bad--my friends
ruby and other classmates soon surrounded tanya, ruby in her melodious voice teased tanya--no blossoms appear , no meetings with my dear, not drunk I am , what state the life is in
tanya sat there watching the atmosphere in the university campus with unwatching eyes, young girls , laughing faces, happy friendly groups, rushing in and out studaents, but she sat alone and uninterested, she ought not to be there at all
the mother of zubedah shows surprise at her daughter inviting her friends and admirers at his place , she says zubedah should have the courtesy to invite them to her place instead, seemingly there she had no objection to her making admirers in youth
the professor goes to the mother to perform his social duty of informing her what her young girl was up to, some thirteen male admirers of hers were invited to his house, the mother filling up buckets of water at the municipality tap makes him carry them to her place .
zubeda asks the professor to allow her lovers to a seminar of her lovers at his home , as the host he must show his hospitality spending money on snacks and tea for her lovers
the neighbours give the narrator the title of professor for his better education and a collection of books , he lives alone and is a single at the time of writing this sattire
zubedah was the product of an abusive parental couple, the mother religiously beat up her tailor father , a spiritual exercise that gave her immense satisfaction, with no other outing , release or socialising zubeda made male friends attracting them by her sweet greetings, exchange of smiles or just simply winking
Life is beauty and nature said the birds at the crack of dawn
Life is streaks of vibrant colours said the sunset
Deep silence it is said the thick forest
It is merely luxurious defined a wealthy man
Light of flame burning all night said the lantern
Sentiment said the heart
nadir shah meets muhammed shah before leaving delhi, he reveals ada beghum was his spy studded in muhammed shah"s court, koki bi was already in his protection, he proposed marriage of his son to muhammed shah"s daughter that could not be defied
the wise loyal trusted vizir nizam almalik was not believed , who foresaw nadir shah paving his destructive way through iran to afghanistan to hindostan, muhammed shah was made to believe by his brainwashers that nizam almalik was soon going to overthrow him with the support of marathas
ada beghum had put forward her conditions of sitting on the throne of akber and jehangir once , if muhammed shah wanted to see her dance the second time, because she had been fortunate enough to get a chance to enjoy a moment of being in the royal throne obece , muhammed shah allowed her to join the palace and made her the minister of his dancing girls department
On one special occasion muhammed shah was asked to observe carefully the dress of the dancing woman--ada beghum, muhammed shah noticed it was a very tight pakhwaj that did not cirle round the dancer like an umbrella, he busied himself in discussions with his other companions present
muhammed shah weakening morally got a secluded royal gardens planned by his favourite dancers, singers and musicians on the outskirts of his territory
the new xizir is segregated by koki bi , the emperor is already tightly stuck in her web, roshan al zafar khan takes koki bi in his conspiracy offers to buy her out, they instigate muhammed shah against his own loyalist vizir and his elder son appointed new subedar of ehemdabad and southern states
the new vizir nizam almalik at the court of muhammed shah in delhi does not fail to see the tight knit web of conspiracies pulling him too into it by koki bi, nizam almalik decides to give his full support to the emperor and silently promises himself to reform him morally
muhammed shah enters his royal chamber, his wife malika mahtalat observes his stressful attitude, she tells him to share his problem with her --she would understand for her royal upbringing , she advises him to appoint nizam almalik of deccan as the new vizir, he was an absolute loyalist, brainy and skilled in warfare strategies
muhammed shah was weakening as the emperor, his court was divided by conspirators and yes men, he was associating with dancing girls, always in a drunken state, never allowed to think proper by his courtiers, his right hand man the vizir amin khan was dead, the strings were being pulled by forces of opposition
muhammed shah's grandmother orders him to get married quickly, he consents to her wishes, koki bi arranges all, sending in for iranian decorations , sees to every detail, sends a message to an associate to keep ajit singh at bay, abadallah khan was already in prison, mir khan was killed , she had the complete control of the hierarachy, she had a natural knack to solve problems and arrange things minutely
koki bi was a close favourite of muhammed shah, she was a born strategist, helping him solve royal problems, making schemes to remove his enemies, trading with him to obtain his royal seal, to secure a powerful position in his hierarchy , earning his confidence to become his document writer , reader and arranged his royal mail, scripting replies
huge battle guns and vannons in shah"s army were pulled by oxens firing and roasting their enemy in the moonlit field, their victory was certain, gold and silver were distributed amongst them encouraging them to go on,
it was a full moon night, the battle field shone with moonbeams , muhammed shah"s army was less than half of what abadallah khan had raised , but shah"s men were highly trained and ruthless and experienced, khan"s were merely kids and aged and amateur
tabash is told the rumour floating was those who had abducted maria had killed the three officers brutally, but tabash was one of the abductors , others being dead and him not the killer a flash in his mind showed him sultana with her eyes amazingly ruthless with her sword at her side
tabash and others get down from the coach, the horses pulled it to the spot where dying jackey wanted to spend his last moments, the lake was resplendent of water lilies growing profusely, it was away from his native land , but some resemblance of it gave him satisfaction
kamran missed fardah who had gone to islamabad for a couple of days and had not returned over a month since, his father had threatened him , the faqir had asked him to stay away that day from the spot for some unseen danger only he could have predicted, while still talking to each other a car sped past firing at them , the faqir died on the spot,
kamran was a regular to the mosque situated in the neighbourhood, at the main gates of it stood an elderly faqir making prophecies to the passers by for a coin, he tells kamran for three coins that he was not an unwanted illegitimate, he was a sought after billionare, his lost beloved was cunningly tricked and detained in another city, theirs would be the most unique and strange kind of marriage ,if his prophecies were proved wrong he could collect his three coins from him any time
zaitun -the mid wife tells kamran he was not recovered from the trash bin as an unwated thrown away child, but his mother had paid her in lacs to save him, his father had paid her to take him to safety to lahore to raise him secretly in safety
his name was kamran, kamran literally means --the able one , an acheiver, but ever since he remembered he was raised by his grandmother , old neighbours told him she was childless divorcee he could not be her daughter"s son
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