Society has celebrated children even as it has denied fundamental rights and dignity to millions of them. Mass movements and social awareness against injustices like child labour, lack of access to health and education, child sexual abuse and trafficking have been catalysed by reformers like Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi. As a result of his untiring efforts, child labour is now universally considered to be a social evil that has to be abolished. Equally important, societies and governments across the world have accepted that access to quality education is the fundamental right of every child. Even as he has fought for justice and dignity for children, Mr. Satyarthi has found time to provoke, inspire and illuminate young minds by writing about children, their dreams and the power of their humanity. This book is a compilation of columns and interviews which highlight the continuing struggle to create safe childhoods. Readers will find much to introspect after going through this collection.

तुम पहले क्यों नहीं आए में दर्ज हर कहानी अँधेरों पर रौशनी की, निराशा पर आशा की, अन्याय पर न्याय की, क्रूरता पर करुणा की और हैवानियत पर इंसानियत की जीत का भरोसा दिलाती है। लेकिन इस जीत का रास्ता बहुत लम्बा, टेढ़ा-मेढ़ा और ऊबड़-खाबड़ रहा है। उस पर मिली पीड़ा, आशंका, डर, अविश्वास, अनिश्चितता, ख़तरों और हमलों के बीच इन कहानियों के नायक और मैं, वर्षों तक साथ-साथ चले हैं। इसीलिए ये एक सहयात्री की बेचैनी, उत्तेजना, कसमसाहट, झुँझलाहट और क्रोध के अलावा आशा, सपनों और संकल्प की अभिव्यक्ति भी हैं। पुस्तक में ऐसी बारह सच्ची कहानियाँ हैं जिनसे बच्चों की दासता और उत्पीड़न के अलग-अलग प्रकारों और विभिन्न इलाक़ों तथा काम-धंधों में होने वाले शोषण के तौर-तरीक़ों को समझा जा सकता है। जैसे; पत्थर व अभ्रक की खदानें, ईंट-भट्ठे, क़ालीन कारख़ाने, सर्कस, खेतिहर मज़दूरी, जबरिया भिखमंगी, बाल विवाह, दुर्व्यापार (ट्रैफ़िकिंग), यौन उत्पीड़न, घरेलू बाल मज़दूरी और नरबलि आदि। हमारे समाज के अँधेरे कोनों पर रोशनी डालती ये कहानियाँ एक तरफ हमें उन खतरों से आगाह करती है जिनसे भारत समेत दुनियाभर में लाखों बच्चे आज भी जूझ रहे हैं। दूसरी तरफ धूल से उठे फूलों की ये कहानियाँ यह भी बतलाती हैं कि हमारी एक छोटी-सी सकारात्मक पहल भी बच्चों को गुमनामी से बाहर निकालने में कितना महत्त्वपूर्ण हो सकती है, नोबेल पुरस्कार विजेता की कलम से निकली ये कहानियाँ आपको और अधिक मानवीय बनाती हैं, और ज़्यादा ज़िम्मेदार बनाती है।

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‘दियासलाई’ नोबेल शान्ति पुरस्कार से सम्मानित और भारत समेत पूरे विश्व में बच्चों के प्रति संवेदना को एक आवश्यक लोकतांत्रिक मूल्य के रूप में स्थापित करनेवाले कैलाश सत्यार्थी की आत्मकथा है। अपनी इस आत्मकथा में वे हमें अपने संघर्षपूर्ण जीवन की कथा भी बताते हैं और अपने उन प्रयासों की भी जानकारी देते हैं जो उन्होंने भारत और विश्व-भर के बच्चों की मुक्ति और कल्याण के लिए किए। वे ही ‌थे जिन्हें ‘ग्लोबल मार्च अगेंस्ट चाइल्ड लेबर’ जैसे महा-आन्दोलन का विचार आया और जिसके तहत उन्होंने दुनिया के 186 देशों की यात्रा करते हुए लाखों बच्चों से सम्पर्क किया और उन्हें आजादी के विचार से अवगत कराया।  शिक्षा के लिए भी उन्होंने विश्व-स्तर पर कैम्पेन चलाया। अपने मानवीय और सामाजिक कार्यों के लिए उन्हें अनेकों बार पुरस्कृत भी किया गया लेकिन अपना वास्तविक पुरस्कार वे उन बच्चों की मुस्कराहट को मानते हैं, जो उन्होंने हर ओर से निराश और समाज के क्षुद्र स्वार्थों की भेंट चढ़े बच्चों को दी। सहज और सम्प्रेषणीय भाषा में लिखी हुई उनकी यह आत्मकथा हमें प्रेरित भी करती है, संवेदनशील भी बनाती है और उन भीषण तथ्यों से भी परिचित कराती है जाे हमारे सामने दुनिया के विराट नक़्शे पर बिलखते बच्चों का पता देते हैं।

"इस पुस्तक में मैंने कोविड-19 महामारी से उपजे ‘सभ्यता के संकट’ के कारणों, परिणामों और समाधानों की विवेचना करने का प्रयास किया है। मेरा जोर, महामारी से उपजे संकट के तात्कालिक उपायों के अलावा मुख्य रूप से स्थायी समाधानों पर है। ये समाधान करुणा, कृतज्ञता, उत्तरदायित्व और सहिष्णुता के सार्वभौमिक मूल्यों पर आधारित हैं। मैं मानता हूँ कि इन मूल्यों को व्यवहार में लाने के आसान तरीके खोजे जाने चाहिए। उपदेश और उपचार का अलग-अलग महत्त्व होता है। उपदेश आसान होते हैं और उपचार मुश्किल। कोरोना वायरस की वैक्सीन तो देर-सवेर ढूँढ़ ही ली जाएगी और इस महामारी का अंत भी हो जाएगा। लेकिन, समाज की चेतना में लगी बीमारियों को दूर करने के लिए ठीक-ठीक उपचार ढूँढ़कर उन्हें उपयुक्त ढंग से लागू करना होगा। इस पुस्तक में मैंने ऐसे ही कुछ उपचार और समाधान ढँूढ़ने का कोशिश की है। —कैलाश सत्यार्थी "

अस्सी के दशक के बाद से विगत कुछ वर्षों तक लिखे गए मेरे लेखों ने बाल मजदूरी, बाल दुर्व्यापार, बाल दासता, यौन उत्पीड़न, अशिक्षा आदि विषयों को सैद्धांतिक और व्यावहारिक आधार दिया। जहाँ तक मेरी जानकारी है, ये बच्चों के अधिकारों से संबंधित विषयों पर लिखे गए सबसे शुरुआती लेख हैं। मैं आपको विनम्रतापूर्वक बताना चाहूँगा कि ये लेख ऐसे ऐतिहासिक दस्तावेज हैं, जिन्होंने भारत में ही नहीं, दुनिया भर में बाल अधिकारों के आंदोलन को जन्म दिया। साधारण लोगों से लेकर बुद्धिजीवियों, कानून निर्माताओं तथा संयुक्त राष्ट्र संघ तक में हलचल पैदा की। मैंने पैंतीस सालों में इन्हीं विचारों की ताकत को संगठनों व संस्थाओं के निर्माणों, सरकारी महकमों के गहन शोध प्रबंधों, कॉरपोरेट जगत् की नीतियों, राष्ट्रीय व अंतरराष्ट्रीय कानूनों और सरकारी बजटों में परिवर्तित होते देखा है।

FlyWings Classics brings you a World ClassicChildren's Fantasy Book Series - The Princess and the Goblin byGeorge MacDonaldWhen Princess Irene is sent away to live in a great old castle-house in the mountains, her life is dull until she happens upon a hidden stairway. But whatever—or whoever—she finds upstairs will lead her out of doors and into the mountains where only the miners are brave enough to go…

One Should not fail to thoroughly understand the Bhagavad Gita as ancient Science of worldly life. These were the words of Lokmanya Tilak. Truly, this is a true scripture of the human race as a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every civilization. As the days pass on, it's becoming more relevant for ages to come. Adi Shankaracharya brought it out from Epic Mahabharat as a clear knowledge to fulfil all the goals of human existence. From ancient to the modern brains it became source of inspiration. For Albert Einstein Bhagavad Gita was the main source of inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and formation of his theories. With the hope that this book will be taken by the readers as a creation and not just a book, and will be a reference text to wide range of readers from students to philosophers, from spiritualists to scientists and writers. Purpose of bringing this book is not just to increase the readability and quotability of Bhagavad Gita through verses and haikus but also to increase spirituality among masses. -Publisher * Gandiva is the name of Arch (Dhanush) of Arjun

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Mathematics Wizard Srinivasa Ramanujan The book depicts the interesting story of a mysterious Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, with no college education, whose mathematics in a series of letters to a Cambridge Mathematician, G.H. Hardy, shook the entire mathematics community. It is an exciting journey of a poor, self-taught and god-gifted mathematician who by the age of 31 became the youngest Fellow of Royal Society of London. Even after almost 100 years of his death at the age of 32, his results mysteriously find applications in modern world such as in the study of black holes, quantum gravity, cryptography and many others. Ramanujan’s life story and work has inspired numerous people and generations of mathematicians around the globe and continue to excite even today. We hope that the book will reach the current generation and generate interest in mathematics.

The Indian Ocean as a Memory Space-Reflections in Indian Diasporic Literature and Culture: The Indian Ocean is a Memory Space for India and her Diaspora. It is a space or site with which, not just the memories of the British colonial period are linked, but collective memories that go back much further in time. Maritime communities from India's Western and Eastern coasts have for over 4,000 years and more, engaged in trade and commerce with the lands in the Persian Gulf, the East and South African coasts, and South East Asia. During the colonial period, indentured Indian labour was taken first to Mauritius in 1834 and then to South Africa and East Africa. The indentured diaspora was followed quickly by the diaspora of traders and professionals. These memories are reflected in Indian Diasporic Literature and Cinema written or made by persons of Indian origins who still live in the littoral states along the African shores of the Indian Ocean, or those who have since immigrated to other spaces such as Canada, the U.S.A. and the U.K. Much research is being done around the world today on the Indian Ocean and its connection with the Indian Diaspora. This international, interdisciplinary collection of essays written by scholars of the Indian diaspora from India and different diasporic locations will value add to the existing scholarship.

A major new collection of essays by Ramachandra Guha, Democrats and Dissenters is a work of rigorous scholarship on topics of compelling contemporary interest, written with elegance and wit. The book covers a wide range of themes: from the varying national projects of India’s neighbours to political debates within India itself, from the responsibilities of writers to the complex relationship between democracy and violence. It has essays critically assessing the work of Amartya Sen and Eric Hobsbawm, commentaries on the tragic predicament of tribals in India–who are, as Guha demonstrates, far worse off than Dalits or Muslims, yet get a fraction of the attention–and on the peculiar absence of a tradition of conservative intellectuals in India. Each essay takes up an important topic or an influential intellectual, as a window to explore major political and cultural debates in India and the world. Democrats and Dissenters is a book that is widely read, and even more widely discussed.

A CLASSIC OF REPORTAGE FROM RURAL INDIA BY AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR, WITH A FOREWORD BY GOPALKRISHNA GANDHI – Prescribed in over 100 universities – Reveals the human face of poverty – Key to understanding issues of globalization, human rights, development economics in India – One of the classics of journalism Acclaimed across the world, prescribed in over 100 universities and colleges, and included in part in The Century’s Greatest Reportage (Ordfront, 2000), alongside the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Studs Terkel and John Reed, Everybody Loves a Good Drought is the established classic on rural poverty in India. Twenty years after publication, it remains unsurpassed in the scope and depth of reportage, providing an intimate view of the daily struggles of the poor and the efforts, often ludicrous, made to uplift them. An illuminating introduction accompanying this twentieth-anniversary edition reveals, alarmingly, how a large section of India continues to suffer in the name of development so that a small percentage may prosper. Besides exposing chronic misgovernance, it is also a devastating comment on the media’s failure to speak for the voiceless.

Rabindranath Tagore was a very accomplished poet endowed with supernatural powers of language and expression. He not only wrote poems and songs but also gave music to them. Besides poems, he also wrote essays, memoirs, plays, novels and short stories which were, and still are, appreciated by the old and the young alike. His short stories, which range from innocent, childlike stories like Kabuliwala to detective and social ones, occupy a prominent place in Bangla literature even today. We have tried to present here some of his famous short stories to the best of our ability. Some of these, like Kabuliwala and Samapti (Uphaar in Hindi), have even been made into films. We have tried to maintain the quality and original flavour of these evergreen stories and hope the readers will appreciate and enjoy them.

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The Truth of Delhi Riots is Unearthing Gradually “As per our plan, on February 24, we called several people and told them how stones, petrol bombs and acid bottles are to be thrown. I shifted my family to another place. At about 1.30 p.m. in the afternoon on February 24, we began pelting stones.” Only those who are not familiar with the real face of the Aam Aadmi Party will be surprised or shocked by the above statements made by the now expelled counsellor Tahir Hussain. The Aam Aadmi Party used its network of people associated with mosques and madarsas and relied on leaders such as Tahir Hussain and Amanat Ulla Khan to bag the Muslim votes in Delhi. In return for the votes, it seems the party granted a specific community a license to consign north-east Delhi to flames. Now that the chargesheet has been finalised by the Delhi Police about the riots that took place in East Delhi, it will be a fallacy to disassociate the riots that took place in places such as Jafrabad, Maujpur, Babarpur, Gokul Puri, Karawal Nagar, Bhajanpura, and Yamuna Vihar from the violence that took place during the anti-CAA protests. The violence that occurred during the anti-CAA protests in places such as Shaheen Bagh, Jamia Nagar, and Seelampur were actually the precursor to a big riot. The riot that took place in the north-east parts of Delhi during US President Donald Trump's visit from February 23-26, 2020. For the violence that was orchestrated during these riots, the work of collecting empty bottles, stones and storing these on the rooftops of houses had begun on February 4. Many people of the Muslim community had filled petrol in their vehicles so that this fuel could later be used for making petrol bombs. In many Muslim families, pamphlets about such riots were distributed with instructions on how to deal with Hindus. It is not rocket science to understand that the Muslim community was already prepared for the riots that broke out in north-east Delhi. Hindus did not get a chance to get their act together. Slowly, the conspiracy behind the riots is unravelling, and the lies perpetrated by the Communist ecosystem are falling flat.

The lead Internal Security Fore of the country, the central Reserve Police Force holds the proud distinction of being the highest decorated Central Armed Police Force of the country. 'The Shaurya, Unbeaten', Chronicles the stories of the C.R.P.F brave hearts with indomitable courage, grit and determination in the face of adversity.

The gradual and steady rise of the 90-year-old Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has fueled many myths. ‘Know About RSS’ unravels the organisation's functioning by providing insight into hitherto unexplained aspects of the RSS – the daily Shakha, Saffron Flag, Prayer, Training Camps, Full-Time Workers, etc. This book provides authentic information about the organisational structure of the RSS, which is simple yet unique and baffling to those unfamiliar with it.

Only an awakened person can be a true leader. He will share his experiences rather than imposing them on others. A leader should have clarity and the capacity to explain any situation before others and give them freedom to choose according to their own understanding. That knowledge is true knowledge that can completely eradicate venomous diseases, such as unrealistic desires, anger, laziness, greed, pride, tension, and depression, at their root. When the source of the problem has been identified and salvaged, the solution comes automatically because alertness is the only key and the final solution to any problem. A person can truly love only when, from the core of his heart, he eradicates all negativities, jealousy, hatred, inferiority complex, false hopes and fills himself with immense love. If a person really desires to become strong, there should be a balance and synchronisation of all three qualities – traditions, thoughts and behaviour. —from this book These gems of thought will inspire you and transform your life, bringing contentment, satisfaction, happiness, and all the good virtues.

Spellings and pronunciation are very important in the English language. One of the characteristics of this language is that there are many words with slight spelling changes and similar pronunciation but different meanings. Such terms are called homonyms or homophones. In this book, many groups of such words are given along with sentences for an explanation of the difference in meanings. This will help understand the language better and smooth the words' usage. It also shows that a spelling error can change the meaning of the word and hence the sentence to a great extent. This book will help us understand the proper use of the word. The usage is explained with a sentence for better understanding. It will benefit students, aspirants of competitive exams, professionals and lovers of the English language.