They were militiamen raised for nine months' emergency service, part of a nationwide effort to turn the tide after a shocking series of enemy victories.
But all idyll is destroyed once Devanna returns and, in a shocking series of events, forces Devi to be his wife.
MUMBAI, India -- Indian commandos rescued some hostages in raids on Thursday as standoffs continued against heavily armed militants who a day earlier had swept into Mumbai, India's commercial capital, in a shocking series of coordinated and bloody attacks.
After a particularly shocking series of rapes by Nepalese blue-helmets in Congo in 2003, Kofi Annan, then UN secretary-general, set up a committee of inquiry.
This is a shocking series, indeed.
The show is a rat-a-tat-tat series of video clips and jokes that are obscene, shocking, even scatological.
Ken's probable innocence is the most shocking of a series of injustices in his case.
Among many other shocking disclosures, a series of 8,500 documents released by the British National Archives have revealed that many Brits feared a devastating alien invasion back in 1967.
In 1997, Toronto photographer Lincoln Clarkes began shooting for his stunning, albeit shocking photo series of over 300 female heroin addicts in Vancouver's downtown eastside.
It is a remarkable piece of work, portraying the collapse of a marriage, and of a husband suspected of engineering his wife's disappearance, in a series of shocking twists.
But he struggled to overcome a series of shocking disclosures, including a report in The Guardian that police were investigating reports that an executive with News International, the British arm of Mr. Murdoch's News Corporation, had tried to delete millions of e-mails from a News of the World archive "in an attempt to obstruct Scotland Yard's inquiry into the affair".
