I have just finished reading it and have to say it really is good

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I have just had my own book published..it is the first in diaporic Punjabi and published by a western publisher.. I am going to get interviewed by Desi Radio next satuday at 10am GMT channel 1602am

I hope people take an interest

Nila Noor – The Blue Light £6.99

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by R S Dhillon

Published by Exposure Publishing, January 2007, ISBN 978-1846855641

A book written in Punjabi.

Resham is a British Punjabi boy whose parents die in a serious accident whilst on holiday in Europe. As he has no other relatives he is taken to India where he stays with a strict religious aunt. They both tolerate each other. Six years later he has developed friendship with Laal Chand who is an associate of a smuggler called Baldev Sidhu. Laal Chand tells Resham of the legend of a diamond called the Blue Light which is believed hidden somewhere by Ahmed Khan, who had duplicity, stole it from a Nawab. ReshamÂ’s curiosity leads him to seek the diamond and before he know it he is on the run from the law with Baldev, wanted for Murder, globe trotting from Lahore to Venice, chasing a cursed legendÂ….

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This product will be in stock on Thursday 25 January, 2007.

Check out the review on Daaku by Ranj Dhaliwal done by Lotus Reads

People seem to like Vandana Singh’s ‘Younguncle’ series but it did not quite work its magic on me. Maybe her ‘Y comes to Town’ is more absorbing compared to the 2nd book of hers which i read. Well again i didnt quite enjoy Artemis Fowl.

Is anyone familiar with J. P. Kerawala’s comics and books. I have an old Timpa comic which comes close to beating Tintin. Can’t seem to find his 2006 book ‘Gifts of the Gods- A Timpa adventure’.

I’m going to ramble about some of the great books i read in 2006.

read Naipaul’s 1971 Booker winner ‘In a Free State’. Really liked the story in which a cook lands in the US. read Shudraka’s Sanskrit play ‘Mricchakatika/The Little Clay’ Cart. T Gopichand’s absorbing- ‘The Bungler/Asmardha Jeevanyatra’ (1947,Telugu, Sahitya Academi winner). Wish i could get more translations of Regional classics.

read a couple of business books – ‘Freakonomics:by Steven D. Levitt’ and ‘The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy’ by Pietra Rivoli. Rivoli’s book explores how a t-shirt origintes from the cotton fields in Texas, processed into Tshirts in Asia, worn in the US and finally recycled in Africa. It has a desi angle as India historically has been a player in the cotton/t-shirt market and more poignantly touches the issue of suicides by cotton farmers in Andhra

read almost all of Christopher Buckley’s satirical novels after watching his ‘Thank you for smoking’

re-read SF Ender’s Game/Shadow, Necromancer and a couple of ‘Sudden’ westerns and ‘Hornblower’ sea epics.

read some awesome comics- jeff smith’s ‘Bone’ series, Hugo Pratt’s ‘corto maltese’ books, Flight, Dungeon Vol. 1: Duck Heart by Lewis Trondheim, Joann Sfar(Samit Basu fans this last comic will appeal to you). But ended up disappointed with the acclaimed ‘David Boring’ comic.

hmm.. cant seem to remember having read any travel writing in 2006

Am going to start 2007 with Bhalchandra Nemade’s Marathi classic ‘Cocoon/Kosla’ and then check out Douglas Preston’s ‘Relic’ which my newphew says is like an Indiana Jones story.

Yes, yes, yes! Younguncle Comes to Town by Vandana Singh is great fun!

I think Jerry Pinto’s book about the fabulous Helen was also worth a read, at least by any filmi enthusiast.

The Last Mughal is available now in Canada, so if you’re very eager to read it, and live near the border …