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ISBN: 9788171199914
Pages: 20
Avg Reading Time: 1 hrs
Age: 18+
Country of Origin: India
Vidroh Nayak Tikait Umrao Singh
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Anindita
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The Boy Who Played with Light: Satyajit Ray
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Lavanya Karthik
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- Description: Before Satyajit Ray became a world-famous film maker, he was a little boy who saw many things in the shadows. A delightfully illustrated short biography that will inspire young readers.
The Girl Who Loved to Run: P.T. Usha
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Lavanya Karthik
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- Description: Quick as a bird, fast as a train-there she goes! This is the story of P.T. Usha, before she became a legend in Indian sports.
Saam Daam Dand Bhed
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Mridula Garg
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Jasinta Ki Dairy
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Jasinta Kerketta +1
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- Description: सोचती हूँ भाषाओं का काम क्या है? किसी को आवाज़ दो तो वह पलट कर देखता है और मुस्कुराता है। बस इतनी-सी बात है। जिनकी भाषा हम नहीं जानते हैं उन्हें अपनी भाषा में बात करते देखते हैं और खुश होते हैं तो उनका अपनी भाषा पर यक़ीन बढ़ता है। अभाव, बीमारी, ग़रीबी, दुख के भी साधारण लोगों ने अपने जीवन में थोड़ा थोड़ा प्रेम, थोड़ी थोड़ी आत्मीयता और मनुष्यता बचाकर रखी है। उन्हें देखते हुए सोचती हूँ की धरती में प्रेम सबसे ताकतवर मूल्य है।
The Price of Our Silence
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Hanadi Falki
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- Description: Is silence ever the answer? How would you react when you know that one of your best friends is lying to you? Who would you trust? Working on top Hollywood projects in the 3D stereoscopy industry is not as rewarding as zuby thought. Along with mounting work pressure and an arranged marriage to escape from, Ruby is forced to either speak up or accept her fate silently. The hidden truths and half lies from her best friends, Adi and Tanya, only make matters worse. Will Adi owe up to his dark secret? Will Tanya accept the reality finally? With a professional background from 3D stereoscopy industry, hanadi falki has brought to life an engaging account of the lives of these youngsters in the price of our silence as they face to the industry's dark secrets of exploitation, favouritism and company politics.
Ek Tha Mohan : Mahatma Gandhi Ka Jeevan Parichay
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Sopan Joshi
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Pudumaippitan
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Lakshmi Holmstrom
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- Description: Pudumaippittan is a collection of Pudumaippittan's work in some of his best known stories, which give some indication of his broad range of content and form. These also include some of the short, stark poetic pieces dating from his earliest work A critical essay and overview of the author is given at the end of this book.
Naach Ghar
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Priyamvad +1
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- Description: नाचघर की कहानी मोहसिन और दुर्वा नाम के दो युवा वयस्कों के इर्द-गिर्द घूमती है, जो अक्सर ब्रिटिश काल की एक परित्यक्त इमारत में जाते हैं। मोहसिन को इमारत की छत पर आराम मिलता है, जबकि दुर्वा भव्य घर में गाने और नृत्य करने के लिए एक छोटे से द्वार से अंदर घुस जाती है। एक दिन, वे गलती से एक-दूसरे को देख लेते हैं। हालाँकि, उनकी शांतिपूर्ण दिनचर्या तब बाधित हो जाती है जब उन्हें पता चलता है कि घर बिक्री के लिए है। यह उपन्यास प्रसिद्ध हिंदी लेखक और इतिहासकार प्रियंवद द्वारा लिखा गया था, जिसमें अतनु रॉय के अद्भुत चित्रण ने इसके आकर्षण को बढ़ा दिया था।
Jugnu Ki Aag
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Urmi Krishna
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- Description: ‘जुगनू की आग’ बाल कहानियों की किताब है। बच्चों को अपने आस-पड़ोस के जीव-जंतुओं से भी समाज में सीखने को मिलता है। ‘जुगनू की आग’ चिंकी चिड़िया से जुड़ी कहानी है, जो अपने जीवन को ख़तरे में डाल कर बड़ी मुश्किल से बचती है। दूसरी कहानी ‘रुदन से जन्मी रूई’ की है जिसे दादी माँ बच्चों को सुना रही हैं।
Classic Satyajit Ray
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Satyajit Ray
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- Description: Strange things happen all the time—doors creak open, shadows shift when no one’s looking and some places never quite forget their past. Enter the world of mystery, magic and macabre with master storyteller Satyajit Ray as he weaves the finest supernatural tales. Featuring haunted houses, curious doppelgangers, sinister shape-shifters and the lingering echoes of a forgotten past, these hauntingly beautiful stories are presented for the first time to a new generation of readers in this collectable edition, featuring Ray’s original artworks. Come, venture into the realms where the boundaries blur!
Zindagi ki Pathshala
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N. Raghuraman
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The Secret Of The Cemetery
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Satyajit Ray
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- Description: On a visit to the Park Street cemetery in Calcutta, Feluda and his friends chance upon an old grave that has been dug into. Slight clues lead them into the heart of a mystery that is both complex and blood-curdling. When the jigsaw that involves a seance in a gloomy old building, a singer in a restaurant, a ruthless and rich collector and a midnight vigil at the graveyard is put together, what emerges is one of the most intriguing mysteries Feluda has ever been faced with.
Postcard from the Lushai Brigade
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Hannah Lalhlanpuii
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- Description: Aizawl, 1942 The world that the young boy at the heart of this story is growing up in is filled with magic and the simple joys of life with his brother Kima. Even the British presence in the Lushai Hills, so resented by some, does not affect him, except as a source of interesting and different things and people. But as the Japanese prepare to invade their land, Kima joins up with the British Indian Army, and the days of simple joy are over . . . The Songs of Freedom series explores the lives of children across India during the struggle for independence.
Forsaking Paradise
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Abdul Ghani Sheikh
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- Description: Written by one of the foremost Urdu writers on Ladakh, the northern-most region of India affected by war and tourism. Capturing Ladakh with images and people, this book makes for interesting reading.
The Serpent's Revenge
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Smt. Sudha Murty
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- Description: How many names does Arjuna have? Why was Yama cursed? What lesson did a small mongoose teach Yudhisthira? The Kurukshetra war, fought between the Kauravas and Pandavas and which even compelled the gods to choose sides, is well known. However, countless stories from before, after, and during the war offer new perspectives and are largely unfamiliar. Award-winning author Sudha Murty reintroduces the captivating world of India's greatest epic through extraordinary tales in this collection, each of which is sure to inspire wonder and amazement.
Avishkar Joote Ka
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Shrilal Shukla
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- Description: ‘आविष्कार जूते का’ रवीन्द्रनाथ ठाकुर की कविता ‘जूता आविष्कार’ पर आधारित है। यह छह दृश्यों का एक बाल नाटक है। हास्य-व्यंग्य शैली का यह नाटक बाल-मनोविनोद की समझदारी रखता है। श्रीलाल शुक्ल ने रवीन्द्रनाथ ठाकुर की कविता को नाट्य-रूप में जीवंत कर दिया है।
Incident on the Kalka Mail
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Satyajit Ray
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- Description: A prosperous gentleman employs Feluda to recover his blue briefcase, which has got switched with another passenger’s on the Kalka Mail. What starts out as an innocuous case soon becomes one of Feluda’s most thrilling adventures. Feluda, Topshe and Jatayu set off for Simla in search of the briefcase, but there are unexpected twists and turns all the way. The hair-raising climax that unfolds on the snowy slopes of Simla throws light on a mystery that is devilishly complex.
Boski Ki Sunali
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Gulzar
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Amar Shaheed Shekh Bhikari
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Anindita
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- Description: ‘अमर शहीद शेख भिखारी’ स्वतंत्रता सेनानी शेख भिखारी की कहानी है। भारतीय स्वतंत्रता संग्राम में बच्चों की रुचि पैदा करने वाली यह पुस्तक चित्र-कथा के रूप में है। यह बच्चों की संवेदनशीलता को बढ़ाने के साथ उनमें देश-प्रेम की भावना भी जगाती है।
