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In late-2000, a young boy in Ahmedabad called Govind dreamt of having a business. To accommodate his friends Ish and Omi’s passion, they open a cricket shop. Govind’s wants to make money and thinks big. Ish is all about nurturing Ali, the batsman with a rare gift. Omi knows his limited capabilities and just wants to be with his friends. However, nothing comes easy in a turbulent city. To realize their goals, they will have to face it all - religious politics, earthquakes, riots, unacceptable love and above all, their own mistakes. Will they make it? Can an individual’s dreams overcome the nightmares offered by real life? Can we succeed despite a few mistakes?

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“I firmly believe that everyone has another part, some people fortunately find it but others have to wait a lot or they never got it. Brida is a great story about the search of answers to your questions, about the quest for love and happiness, and realizing your dreams by following your heart, told in a very clear way and easy to read and understand.” -Anonymous Reader

Brida is an Irish young woman, who like Santiago, the Alchemist, is also in search of her personal legend!!! She had to follow her heart! She found a teacher from the tradition of the Sun, and another from the tradition of the Moon, she learnt what she had to learn from both of them!

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The Shape of the Beast is our world laid bare, with great courage, passion and eloquence, by a mind that has engaged unhesitatingly with its changing realities, often anticipating the way things have moved in the last decade.In the fourteen interviews collected here, conducted between January 2001 and March 2008, Arundhati Roy examines the nature of state and corporate power as it has emerged during this period, and the shape that resistance movements are taking. As she speaks, among other things, about people displaced by dams and industry, the genocide in Gujarat, Maoist rebels, the war in Kashmir and the global War on Terror, she raises fundamental questions about democracy, justice and non-violent protest. Read the rest of this entry »