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  2. Night Train (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Night Train (1997) is a comedic parody of American detective novels [1] by the author Martin Amis, named after the song "Night Train", which features twice in the novel. Plot summary [ edit ]

  3. Ruskin Bond - Wikipedia

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    Several stories have been incorporated into the school curriculum in India, including The Night Train at Deoli, Time Stops at Shamli and Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra. In 2005, the Bollywood director Vishal Bhardwaj made a film based on his popular novel for children, The Blue Umbrella. The movie won the National Film Award for Best Children's ...

  4. The Woman on Platform 8 - Wikipedia

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    Satish's mother then complains about the train's midnight schedule, complains about other boys traveling alone, and warns Arun about talking to strangers in the station. Arun, disliking her condescending tone, contradicts her by telling her, "I like strangers." Finally, the train arrives at the platform and the boys climb aboard.

  5. Internment of Chinese Indians - Wikipedia

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    The Association of India Deoli Camp Internees, a Canadian non-profit group, wrote two open letters to former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh, but did not receive a reply. [ 11 ] In 2004, Rafeeq Ellias recounted the appalling treatment of the Chinese residents in Calcutta in the documentary film The Legend of Fat Mama . [ 12 ]

  6. Last Stop on the Night Train - Wikipedia

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    The new train is old, run-down, and virtually empty. Finding a compartment in the last carriage, they settle down for their trip and begin to eat a packed lunch by candlelight. As the train travels into the night, the girls discover that the thugs and the older woman are on board. The three soon force their way into the girls' compartment.

  7. Nightsleeper - Wikipedia

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    Craig would finish his review by saying the series felt "like a show that couldn't decide what it wanted to be", with "shades of a self-aware train-set action-comedy, dashes of a nervy cyber thriller, and attempts at hard-hitting social commentary on political polarisation and marginalisation.

  8. Night Train (2009 film) - Wikipedia

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    Night Train is a 2009 direct-to-video mystery thriller film produced by Rifkin-Eberts Productions and stars Danny Glover, Leelee Sobieski, Steve Zahn and Matthias Schweighöfer. It pays homage to a variety of classic suspense films such as Strangers on a Train (1951), The Lady Vanishes (1938), and The Maltese Falcon (1941), though the plot ...

  9. Quadrail series - Wikipedia

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    The Quadrail series is a sequence of five (as of 2012) science fiction novels by Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn.. In a space opera setting, human Frank Compton is hired by the Spiders, servant beings who operate the intergalactic Quadrail network, and their enigmatic masters the Chahwyn, to investigate a group-mind, the Modhri, which infiltrates other sentient beings and controls them ...