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Chennai : The accused S Govindhan alias Srinivasan of Aminjikarai has been into stealing laptops since and used to work as an insurance agent before he was first arrested in Aminjikarai with his friends for a similar offence. He has several cases of laptop theft pending against him and he was last arrested by Bengaluru police.
He recently came out on bail. On November 1, he escaped with six laptops from an IT company in broad daylight and a complaint was lodged.
Having never read anything by Henya Drescher before, I was eager to check out her writing. The premise of the story had me curious and I was hooked from the early chapters.
Watching Bree Michaelson appear to swim upstream to prove herself is a wonderful theme throughout this piece, while the reader questions what us real and where the mind of a traumatized woman has filled in the missing pieces.
Bree Michaelson is a wonderfully complex character, whose story emerges throughout the development of the narrative. Not only does she have to deal with a baby who has gone missing, but she questions everything about the man who got her into this mess. Where does truth end and fallacy begin? Drescher does a wonderful job with her supporting characters, offering the reader a glimpse at a fabulous cross-section of people who help enrich the story.
The banter and interactions add much to the story and help make the plot even better. The premise of the piece may not be entirely unique, but it was developed in such a way as to pull the reader in from the opening pages and leave them wondering. The latter portion of the book alone takes the reader down quite the rabbit hole, bringing things together in ways that few could have ever predicted.
All signs of a masterful writer that can keep the reader from standing on solid ground. This serves to keep the reader open their toes and guessing, even if the most likely answer is right before them. Use of different chapter lengths serves to keep the reader from getting into too much of a lull, mixing up the short bits to keep the momentum going and then adding longer an more detailed portions when the information is such that one has to keep going to see how it will play out.
Strong characters and a narrative that takes things in many directions keeps things fresh throughout while always leaving the reader wondering if they missed something obvious, a la Sixth Sense. Drescher is masterful in her storytelling and I can only hope to find more of her work in the coming years. Kudos, Madam Drescher, for such a captivating piece. I will be sure to recommend others try this novel to see what they think for themselves.
An irresistible psychological thriller that fans of Gone Girl and Girl on a Train will fall head-over-heels for. As Stolen Truth begins, new mother Bree Michaelson wakes up at home drugged, disoriented and confused about the scent of paint and bleach overwhelming her senses. Nauseous and unsteady, she naturally fears for her newborn son.
Seatbelts are required for what comes next: no one, including her family and the police, believe her story. Was she ever married to begin with? Was there even a baby? Quite certain about her memories, Bree is determined to do whatever it takes to find them.
Will she fight to find the truth or resign herself to believing that it is all in her own mind? In a world where literature is suddenly filled with unreliable narrators, Bree is a rare standout. Her anxieties, recollections and flaws are both unique and highly vivid. Overall, Drescher delivers the kind of absorbing psychological thriller that will delight readers who love The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl. Kristina Civille. Stolen Truth is an action-packed book that will grab your attention from page one.
You will be asking yourself, is the main character, Bree, crazy or is she being setup? According to Hindu belief, it was revered by gods like Krishna—even though it seemed to carry a curse, if the luck of its owners was anything to go by.
The gem, which would come to be known as the Koh-i-Noor Diamond, wove its way through Indian court intrigues before eventually ending up in the British Crown Jewels by the mids.
But according to historians Anita Anand and William Dalrymple, that geologist got it all wrong. And the true history has its share of drama. All the romance, all the blood, all the gore, all the bling. But beneath the drama of the diamond is a more serious question that still has no clear answer: How should modern nations deal with a colonial legacy of looting?
To understand where the diamond came from—and whether it could ever go back—requires diving into the murky past, when India was ruled by outsiders: the Mughals. Most of the gemstones were alluvial, meaning they could be sifted out of river sands, and rulers of the subcontinent embraced their role as the first diamond connoisseurs. Turco-Mongol leader Zahir-ud-din Babur came from Central Asia through the Kyber Pass located between modern-day Afghanistan and Pakistan to invade India in , establishing the Islamic Mughal dynasty and a new era of infatuation with gemstones.
The Mughals would rule northern India for years, expanding their territory across nearly all of present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and eastern Afghanistan, all the while reveling in the mountains of gemstones they inherited and pillaged. In , Mughal ruler Shah Jahan commissioned a magnificent, gemstone-encrusted throne. The bejeweled structure was inspired by the fabled throne of Solomon, the Hebrew king who figures into the histories of Islam, Judaism and Christianity.
As court chronicler Ahmad Shah Lahore writes in his account of the throne:. On top of each pillar there were to be two peacocks thick set with gems, and between each of the two peacocks a tree set with rubies and diamonds, emeralds and pearls. Among the many precious stones that adorned the throne were two particularly enormous gems that would, in time, become the most valued of all: the Timur Ruby—more highly valued by the Mughals because they preferred colored stones—and the Koh-i-Noor diamond.
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