The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2)

by Alka Joshi

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway. —MOTHER TERESA

If you want the rose, you must put up with the thorn. —HINDU PROVERB

Be humble for you are made of earth Be noble for you are made of st...

“We know things about people, Malik, because we go into their homes, the place where they are most vulnerable. That does not mean that we can divulge what we’ve have seen or heard to everyone we know. There’s more power in keeping a secret than in betraying it.” I never thought Lakshmi meant that we should blackmail people using our knowledge, only that our clients would be loyal to us if we showed loyalty to them.

the Shimla library, an old haunt of Rudyard Kipling’s.

No matter how small, or how large, the occasion, it can always be celebrated with a little gold, the universal panacea for what ails us Indians.