DID YOU KNOW THAT… One of Indias greatest emperors was erased from all history books for nearly 1,500 years? Beetles and beetle wings were a much sought-after fashion accessory once upon a time? The iron pillar in Delhis Qutub complex does not rust? A French astronomer discovered the remains of a Roman port in South India? A caravan of elephants and camels from India once paraded the frozen streets of St Petersburg, Russia? Dive into these and many more odd and wonderful facts from the pages of Indian history. You will find here the megacity of ancient India whose existence we know of today from the accounts of Chinese and Greek travellers; the architects who created whispering galleries; the cluster of houses in Rajasthan covered with vibrant frescoes; and the strange story of how tea came to India. Lovelorn princes who lost their kingdoms; intrepid botanists who studied and recorded every plant in the Malabar region; the poem written in praise of garlic—these are some of the nuggets that capture the peculiar, the fascinating and the eccentric bits of history the way no textbook ever will!........
Beloved stories from Hindu mythology by a bestselling author and acclaimed Sanskrit translator From the author of Ramayana for Children and Mahabharata for Children comes a book of wellknown stories from Hindu mythology. Read about Prahlada, the churning of amrita from the ocean and how Durga killed Mahishasura. And alongside these favourites, introduce your child to some lesser-known myths such as the story of Garuda, and the magic cow Kamadhenu. Richly and beautifully illustrated on every page, this book will be treasured by both you and your child.
Young Kalam is back with an even bigger adventure! Its the opportunity of a lifetime an all-India school science competition and a chance to win a tour of the amazing Mohawk IVz fighter aircraft. Ten-year-old Kalam wants nothing more than to take part. But entering the competition is only the first challenge. Kalam has to overcome the sniggers and the bullying, beat the countrys smartest young scientists and make some totally mind-boggling inventions along the way. Can he pull it off?
The book is completely non fiction ,about Operation Cactus of 1988 but told in a manner that will appeal to children. The original story is by the Journalist Mr. Sushant Singh of CPR India and Ms. Shruthi Rao, a well known children/s author has adapted it into a children's book by dramatizing it a little. The book is wonderfully illustrated by Mr. Shagnik Chakraborty who has also very creatively designed the cover. Harsh Agrawal
'Filled with memorable characters, The East Indian grapples with the brutal colonialism and indentured labour of the 1600s with warmth and wit.' - SHASHI THAROOR Meet Tony - compassionate and insatiably curious, with a unique perspective on every scene he encounters. Kidnapped and transported to the New World after traveling from the coast of India to the teeming streets of London, young Tony finds himself indentured on a Virginia tobacco plantation. Alone and afraid, Tony longs for home, and envisions a life after servitude full of adventure and learning. His dream: to become a physician's assistant, an expert on roots and herbs, a dispenser of healing compounds. Like the play that captivates him - Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which Tony saw at the Globe during his short time in London - Tony's life is rich with oddities and hijinks, humor and tragedy. Set largely during the early days of English colonization in Virginia, Brinda Charry's The East Indian gives authentic voice to an otherwise unknown historical figure and brings his world to vivid life.
Kumar Nair is dismissed from a colonial paramilitary unit for refusing to disperse unarmed women agitating for India's independence. When the Great Depression destroys his fledgling business, he moves to Singapore for a fresh start, but World War II breaks out. After Singapore falls, he joins a secret spy school, createdby the Japanese intelligence and the rebel Indian National Army to defeat the British and free India. When a double agent betrays several cadets, Kumar is sent on a rescue mission. Caught in a hall of mirrors, can he cross wartime borders, rescue captured agents and return to his young wife in Malabar?
WINNER OF THE TATA LITERATURE LIVE! BOOK OF
THE YEAR (FICTION) 2022 'You cannot force two nations to live together any more
than you can force two people,' he says quietly. Fatima smiles, feeling a
slight thrill of victory. 'Divorce.' 'Pakistan.' Two intense, inflexible
personalities duel over a question that will decide the fate of millions: one
nation-or two? Jinnah, the consummate, ruthlessly analytical gentleman in a
tailored suit, starts out sceptical of those who come to his door proposing a
'Land of the Pure', but ends up founding exactly such a country. Gandhi, the
religious visionary in homespun khadi, experiments with Truth in his quest for
one India-only to witness, in anguish, the bloody birth of two nations. The Map
and the Scissors is a novel about the epic origin story of modern South Asia,
brought to life by two London-educated lawyers, mirror-image rivals who dreamt
the same dream of freedom-in catastrophically incompatible ways.
When Dhondu Pant Nana Saheb, the adopted son of exiled Maratha Peshwa Bajirao II, is denied rights as the Peshwa's heir by the British after his father's death, he makes an appeal to reclaim his title, only to be rebuffed again. Then, as a mutiny breaks out in Kanpur in 1857 and Nana Saheb emerges as its leader, he is labelled by the British as a villainous monster, a barbarous butcher and the criminal leader of the 'Sepoy Mutiny', which sweeps across India from 1856 to 1859. Yet, to a nation in turmoil, he becomes a hero who stands up to the colonial oppression and emerges as a forerunner to the leaders who bring freedom to the nation less than a century later. In The Devil's Wind, Nana Saheb's story-a significant, turbulent and intrigue-filled chapter in India's history-is skilfully brought to life by master storyteller Manohar Malgonkar in vivid, inventive detail.
In
the hill town of Didoli, each of the five visitors to the house on the gorge
has a story. The avuncular mongrel called Vurf, a spirit bearing a message for
a stepdaughter, the urchin with her golden hair and a vagabond past, a fading
child star too wise for his years and an autistic infant who can smell
tomorrow. Their lives are entwined over a span of thirty years in a thinking
world that seems to say: you grow up to become your childhood.