The hero of Dark Diamond is Lord Shayista Khan, the Mughal Viceroy of Bengal, who in 1685, during Aurangzeb's rule, was the most powerful man on Earth. Under Lord Khan's governance, Bengal became the epicenter of commerce and culture - a veritable treasure chest with greedy enemies: Maratha warriors, Arakan rajas, Hindu zamindars, fanatic Mullahs, a diabolical Pir with occult powers and the East India Company. Not only does Lord Khan have to keep them at bay but also he must neutralize the curse of the Kalinoor, the dark diamond sister of the famous Kohinoor that now adorns the British Crown.
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Bloomsbury India
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Shazia Omar, is a well-being psychologist. She teaches yoga and works in a not-forprofit organization that helps poor women. To create this book, she drew from her experience as a working mother, a yogi, a dreamer, a daughter who lost her mother to cancer, a 9/11 survivor and a warrior against clinical depression. She is a fan of Louise Hay and Rumi. Her novel, Like a Diamond in the Sky was published by Penguin India in 2009.
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234 mm
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153 mm
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Not an Ordinary Adventure
I started reading this book quite a long while ago, and for some reason I couldn’t quite get into it. I finally picked it up again yesterday, and then proceeded to devour it in just one sitting! Dark Diamond is filled with romance, tragedy, greed, pirates, magic and is an adventure you’ll never forget.
“I live in the Alley among the squalid and the forgotten. Your opulence is nauseating, built on bones of defeated kingdoms. You pursue destruction. You forget that the purpose of life is not d...