“shashi warrier”

Javed Sharif returns home to Srinagar for his father’s eighty-fourth birthday. He returns with a sense of well-being, despite troubles, the violence and the bitterly cold weather. Unexpectedly, his dreams of retiring and settling in Kashmir again are shattered by a knock on the door on the day of ... More

‘Among the thousands of orphaned children adopted after ’47 there are a few¬—less than twenty—who were planted here by Jinnah’s men . . .’ At thirty-eight, feeling ancient and used up, Colonel Rajan Menon—Raja—knows his best years as a commando ar... More

‘Measuring out the rope, testing it, tying the knots—I have learnt to do these things well, because I concentrate on doing them well. I concentrate on them as best as I can, because if I don’t my mind will finds its ways to the man about to die, and then I will have no peace.’ For over three... More

Terrorists from the Free Kashmir Front hijack a coach on the Shatabdi Express with forty people, just outside Madras. A nephew of the defence minister is among the passengers. Within the first five minutes they have killed a railway guard and caused the authorities to panic. The Special Operations F... More

‘He looked at everything with a sniper’s eye. The world was one large target and he was alone in it, in his own dark little womb, depending for survival on his sniper’s instincts.’ Lieutenant Colonel Eswaran, a highly decorated Special Forces officer in the Indian army, is i... More

Three stories about plucky girls, handsome princes, sly dragons and brave fairies Suzy is a princess with an amazing talent—if anyone tells a lie in her presence, the liar's nose swells up. When the crafty Minister decides to get rid of Suzy's parents and take over the kingdom, King Rando... More

Author of Night of the Krait At thirty-eight, feeling ancient and used up, Raja knows his best years as a commando are behind him. But he will soon be tested as never before... Raja (Colonel Rajan Menon) has barely crossed the border to safety after a daring rescue operation in Pakistan Occupied K... More