SP Sucheta Sharma witnessed the brutal murders of her parents when she was a four year old girl. The nightmares have gone; the horror much diminished. To her it seems it happened to someone else. Adopted by her father's best friend and co-police officer, Arun Makhija, she has been loved, sheltered and mentored by him. To her he is her father, the father who has taught her everything she knows about life, about her job. But she cannot let go of the past. Sucheta is convinced that her parents' murders are not the case of burglary it was made out to be. There is more to it. So she reaches back...

Mixed pickle is a collection of short stories which deal with different facets of life. Some will make you laugh; some may make you reflect; others you will simply enjoy. From the comical "Ever- after" to the ghost love story "The Ring" these stories will entertain and enthrall you. For the discerning(and not so discerning) reader stories from the heart.

The Blue Diary is the story of Sakshi who moves from small town Dalhousie to big city Delhi. From a sprawling bungalow to a small flat. From the school where she has studied for thirteen years to another- St. Francis. She's not happy. Missing her friends and her old way of life desperately Sakshi tries to hide her real feelings from her parents. She knows it means a great deal to her parents- her father's promotion and this shift to the big city. To make matters worse she makes an enemy at school- Megha- who seems to have nothing better to do than to make life miserable for her. Trying to...

"Fire" is the story of Raghuvir Bhardwaj, a sixteen year old refugee who comes to Delhi after the partition from Lahore. "Fire" traces his journey from the crowded refugee camp, through the rented house in Daryaganj to his emergence in society as a powerful business magnate. It tells the tale of his passionate love for Radhika, the only daughter of Barrister Sharma, his friendships with two very different boys- Maninder and Ratan Patel( scion of Ralhan Patel) and his transformation from a shy gauche introvert to a man driven by pain and hate. Raghuvir, or Raghu as he is called, comes to India...

They are sisters. Sulochana, Sadhana and Suruchi. The three daughters of Kantibai Pandit, a tax Inspector. Set in the turbulence and uncertainty of a post- independent India, amidst wars between India and Pakistan in 65' and 71', it traces the lives, the loves, the joys, the disillusionment and triumphs of these sisters. Sulochana, the oldest, is warm, sunny natured, good and beautiful. She is Kantibai's pride and joy. Sadhana is the cuckoo in the nest. Neither beautiful nor intelligent, she is a source of constant irritation and embarrassment to her father. Suruchi is pure intellect,...

A suicide followed by a murder is hardly the way SSP Rajveer Singh envisioned spending his evening at a party to which he is invited with his parents. He finds Mrs. Thaddani there too. Two years ago she had helped him ferret out the murderer at Golden Palms. Since then he has undergone a sea change in the way he perceives snoopy old women and learnt to trust Sima Thaddani's razor sharp intellect. So when she keeps insisting that the suicide isn't a suicide he listens. His investigations reveal a convoluted web in which people are playing a game of hide and seek with him. Complex, artistic,...

Two plus two equals four right? Wrong. SP Rajveer Singh, sour, disgruntled and superseded cop, soon discovers that his logic is entirely illogical. The architect who built Golden Palms resort is found murdered in it. And the resort is teeming with suspects. Everyone seems to have a motive to kill. What is the mystery shrouding the death of Nandani? What is the secret that Jivan D'Souza is hiding? What about Gomez? And the half crazed Sheel Notiwal who confesses to the murder then later thinks she might have seen the murder being committed? Soon another murder is committed. Everywhere he turns...

WATER is the sequel to FIRE. It centres around Brij Bhardwaj -son of Agni Bhardwaj and the grandson of Raghuvir Bhardwaj. Brij the only son of Agni, has been brought up to the idea of inheriting Bhardwaj, of being his grandfather's natural successor. From his birth his father has bequeathed him his own obsession with the company. And Brij finds it difficult to reconcile to his grandfather's decision to make his cousin Mayuri his successor. Hurt, angry and resentful he sees his cousin as an interloper, someone who has snatched away what should have been rightfully his. Struggling with his...

Neelima Rastogi aged seventy nine dies. No-one is surprised. None of the family she loved to rule over and torment. She was old, ailing. And yet some of them are. Her niece Roshni, for instance. Her aunt always seemed to her to be invincible. Alive. Vital. Then they discover she has been poisoned. Suicide? Certainly not None of the members of her family are prepared to consider the possibility. It leaves only one other possibility. One they cannot consider. Murder. Roshni is frightened by the idea that it might be one of them. Suddenly her safe world is filled with danger and she finds...

Girl meets boy. She is barely ten and he- fifteen. He is mourning his father and she her doll. Belonging to different worlds, different realities, briefly their paths converge. The boy grows into a man. Aveer Mohali. Business tycoon at the age of 25. A man who has everything he can possibly desire. For ten years since he was 15, Aveer has fought to keep the company his father has left him. He has been driven by only one demon- work. Now at 25 with both his parents dead, Aveer is alone. But content. He does not know the meaning of loneliness. Until the day Trina walks into his office and his...