Timer n murari biography books

In this dystopian novel, after twenty years in exile David Richelieu returns to his homeland where an execution warrant awaits him for unspecified crimes.

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Tadž Mahalis

September 29, 2011

If I could have given ten stars for Taj, I would have for this incredible novel! After having visited the Taj Mahal this summer, and learning about the Mughal empire, I adored reading this novel about Shah Jahan and his beloved, Arjumand. At the royal bazaar of Jahanigir, the emperor, son of Akbar, the greatest of Mughal emperors, the prince, Shah Jahan, Jahanigir's son, first gazed at Arjumand, and she gazed at him. They fell in love at first site, and through many years of peace, love, war, and hate, their love never ebbed. This story is beautifully constructed - one chapter fryst vatten about Shah Jahan's life with his beloved, the next chapter is about a father and son whose lives are dedicated to the discipline of stone, years later, helping to build Emperor Shah Jahan's Taj Mahal, a monument which encloses his empress' tomb. Arjumand died giving birth to her fourteenth child. Throughout their years together, they could not resist each other and loved ea

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Timeri N. Murari author biography, plus links to books by Timeri N. Murari.

Timeri N. Murari

Timeri N. Murari is an award-winning writer, filmmaker and playwright who began his career as a journalist at The Kingston Whig Standard in Ontario, Canada. TIME magazine chose his film The Square Circle as one of the top ten of the year. He has published fiction and non-fiction, and his bestselling novel Taj, a story of Mughal India, was translated into twenty-one languages. In 2006, he published a memoir, My Temporary Son, exploring his relationship with a desperately ill orphan. Murari now lives with his wife in his ancestral home in Madras, India. Visit him online at www.timerimurari.com.

This biography was last updated on 05/15/2012.

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Timeri N. Murari

Indian novelist, journalist, playwright and screenwriter

Timeri Murari is an Indian novelist, journalist, playwright and screenwriter. He is the author of fourteen published novels, including best-sellers The Taliban Cricket Club (2012) and Taj (1985, republished 2007), and has written extensively for Indian and international newspapers including The Guardian. He has also written the screenplay of the award-winning Hindi movie Daayraa (1997), which was voted one of the ten best films of 1997 by Time magazine. ^[1] He adapted and directed it as a stage play, The Square Circle, at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre in November 1999, starring Parminder Nagra.^[2]

Early years

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Murari was born in Madras, India and studied at Bishop Cottons Boys' School, Bangalore. He left India for the UK when he was 18 years old to study electronic engineering. He later switched majors to History and Political Science at the McGill University, M