Shashi: 45 books

This is a story of an immigrant, a woman who migrates from Sri Lanka to the United States in search of freedom from societal constraints. She travels across the world with a six year old daughter in pursuit of further education. The narrative outlines the challenges she faces as she adjusts to her...

‘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 are behind him. But he is soon tested as never...

This book is the definitive volume on the history of chess in Singapore. Covering 19451990, it covers the post-war emergence of a truly "local" chess scene out of the colonial period, then taking the story up to the modern era. Contained within these pag