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2024

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'All right, I will share my deepest, darkest secret. I loved my father... like sons love their fathers, I loved mine too. And aren't sons forever following their father's footsteps? Even if those footsteps are blighted...?" 

After Umer's father leaves to join the jihadis, the family is pushed to the brink of poverty and desperation, but his mother will have nothing to do with her husband. The government and charities working in Kashmir, in their better wisdom, believe it is best not to offer sustenance to the children and the widow's of militants. Isolated by society and trapped in adversity: will the mother's determination to turn her back on violence crumble? Will Umer go his father's way? What choices will the family make?

Weed

So, chutki isn’t born perfect. She’s born wingless. So what, you may ask, so are most of us. Well, she’s a princess, the much-awaited baby of the King and Queen of the Heavens, so it’s a BIG so what! Rejected by the un-angelic angels up there, her parents smuggle her out of Heaven. Now begins her journey to earth and the many adventures to find her a new, loving home of not too much and not too little. As Chutki grows up, does she find out what her true origins are? Does she get rejected from where she belongs and is accepted where she doesn’t?

Wingless: A Fairly Wierd Fairy Tale

Any self-respecting teenager has to have at least five angst-ridden issues in life. Okay, some really cool ones may have three. Take parents, teachers, schools, exams, weight, friends, enemies; then there’s the mess that groan-ups have made of the world. Like all the wars they fight. And they’ve used up the water, the air, the forests as though there were no generation after them.So here are ten stories that get what you think about. These are not only for you, but are You.

Wild Child

A captivating tale of the tussle between wolf gang and bandar log which leads to Mowgli’s self-discovery.

Jungle Book: The Early Days

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