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Money Villa: Learn to be Money Smart
MoneyVilla: Learn to be Money Smart is a captivating journey into the world of financial literacy tailored for young minds. With the beguiling character of Sammy, readers embark on an adventure filled with valuable lessons on financial concepts such as saving, budgeting, loans, interest, and profit and loss, effortlessly mixing education with entertainment. Engaging activities at the end of each chapter encourage children to apply this newfound knowledge to their daily lives. The book’s vibrant illustrations and relatable storyline make complex financial concepts accessible and enjoyable, fostering a positive attitude towards money management from an early age especially for young, questioning, and precocious minds. As your children embark on this financial adventure, we invite parents and teachers to join them and enrich the journey. Here’s how you can make the most of this experience: Read Together: Take the time to read with your children, encouraging their curiosity and thoughts as you explore each chapter together. Discuss Concepts: Talk about the financial ideas in the book, using real-life examples to explain saving, budgeting, and wise financial choices. Encourage Activities: Encourage your child to complete the activities provided. These are designed to reinforce learning and promote critical thinking skills. Lead by Example: Be a positive role model when it comes to money management. Share your own money experiences and demonstrate good financial habits in everyday life. Make it Fun: Turn everyday moments into financial adventures, making learning about money a fun family activity. Your involvement will not only deepen their understanding but also make learning a delightful experience. Let’s make financial literacy an adventure filled with discovery and fun! Happy Reading! —Bilal A Pandow
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Rani Lakshmi Bai Jhansi
Lakshmi Bai, Jhansi Ki Rani was one of the first, and most important voices against British rule in India. As a child, Lakshmi Bai was brought up to stand up for herself and give voice to the weak. Unafraid, and unbowed, Lakshmi Bai went out fighting the ones who wanted to oppress her and immortalized her name in Indian history. Illustrated imaginatively, this book gives us a glimpse into the life of an unforgettable woman who became a legend and a role model for countless revolutionaries.
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The Mystery of the Magic Mirror
What happens when you have three kids, a pup, and a ghost together in a huge jungle? Opal and Shailendra, a brother-sister duo, have just moved into a large house on the city outskirts. Much to their amusement, they discover a ghost in their house! Soon, their cousin Krish, with a cute puppy Chutney in tow, comes to visit them during the holidays. The kids embark on an adventure to find out about the ghost and end up befriending him. The friendly ghost Xoxo gets on a mission to find the wicked ghost who possess the evil magic mirror in the jungle and destroy it. The kids help Xoxo, and they venture into the mysterious jungle with duplicated images. How will Xoxo help the kids find the mirror? Will they be able to destroy it and save humanity? Join them in the quest and embark on a journey of a lifetime one replete with vivid imagination and excitement!
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The Siachen Soilder And Short Stories
In today's troubles lie the seeds of tomorrow's stories. Air Commodore Nitin Sathe, drawing from his extensive service in the Indian Air Force, reflects on how the trials, triumphs, and moments of joy that once consumed him have now become the raw material for his narratives. His stories vividly portray life in the armed forces - from the thrill of combat to the rigours of training, the turmoil of warfare, the solitude of distant outposts, and the joy of leisure. Meanwhile, Dr Suneet Madan skillfully weaves her poetic magic around the central theme of each narrative, creating a unique and thoughtful read. These narratives, told with lightness and brevity, provide an intimate glimpse into the fauji life and will linger in your thoughts long after you've turned the last page. They serve as motivation or inspiration in those moments when you think all isn't well with life.
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The Last Witness
A reputed ISRO scientist, Dr Rangarajan is brutally attacked by an unidentified man shortly before he departs for Germany where he is leading the Indian delegation for an important space research collaboration. Events now take an unexpected turn that leaves the nation baffled and bewildered. Was the scientist secretly trading ISRO technology to foreign buyers? With elections around the corner, this question now rocks the nation and even threatens to bring down the current government. Jasmine, a German of Indian origin, assigned by the Indian Embassy to guide Dr Rangarajan in Germany feels personally responsible for what happens and soon joins Sithara who resides in the ISRO staff housing complex on a dangerous mission to restore the honour and integrity of the celebrity scientist. Along with Niniya, Jasmine’s daughter and a child with special needs, the trio comes together in this thrilling adventure as they set off to unravel the truth. Can they outwit the seasoned criminals controlled by a powerful lobby who are always in hot pursuit? Can they convince the IB and the CBI that they are innocent? Can they clear the scientist’s name?
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Ghost In The Crystal
About the Book: Ghost in the Crystal When thirteen-year-old Simon invites the South Wind to his door, he opens the door to a world of magic that is both exciting and frightening. When an angry ghost begins whispering in his ear, offering him power in exchange for service, Simon's friendships, love and even life are put at risk. As they travel back in time to ancient Alexandria, Egypt, Simon joins sharp - tongued Goldberry, roommate Robbie, mysterious, lovely Leah and menacing Mermelstein to overcome the challenge of...The Ghost In The Crystal. The Ghost In The Crystal is the first book in the five-book series of School Of The Ages. About the Author: Matt Posner Matt Posner is a writer and teacher from New York City. He has a Masters degree in English from Florida State University. He is the poet and percussionist for The Exploration Project, New York City's premier avant-garde multimedia band. His interests include cultural studies, music history and performance, visual arts, films, religion, and professional wrestling
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Hindu Terror
Chilling account of a man who was almost traded for release of Ajmal Kasab" What role did ministers like Shivraj Patil, P Chidambaram, A R Antulay, Digvijay Singh and officials like Chitkala Zutshi, Dharmendra Sharma, Hemant Karkare, R V Raju play in the Hindu Terror narrative? Here is a version of a man who almost was taken captive and was to be traded for elease of Ajmal Kasab, but saved by sheer providence. In his insider account, author RVS Mani discloses how the country’s internal security establishment functioned in the period of 2004-2014 when India faced some of the bloodiest terrorist carnages. This former Home Ministry official posted in the Internal Security Division between 2006-2010 also poses several questions which the nation should seek answers to
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Narendra Modi -The Gamechanger
For the first time, Modi has been quoted in any book talking about the hitherto untouched aspects of his life. The book is based on extensive interviews of the Gujarat Chief Minister and his close relatives about the influences that shaped his thoughts and actions. The 400-plus pages talk about the inspiring stories that made Modi what he is todayhow he evolved as a man of development and empowered people with his decisions, and how he faced the poison-laced barbs of his critics who were ready to tear him to pieces for a crime he never committed.Modi's journey from a tea-seller to becoming the prime ministerial candidate of the opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has been one of struggle, dedication, determination, hardwork and perseverance. Since his childhood, Modi has been an early riser. He does not go to bed until he has finished his work. An average Indian finds his own reflection in the struggle of Modi. Like Modi, he can dream big. Yes, he can! When he was a young boy of 13, he received a near-fatal injury due to attack by a crocodile in the Sharmishtha Lake he swam daily. He was bed-ridden for more than a week. It hit like a sword on my ankle, he said and showed to the author the scar he got due to the nine stitches. Modi was a victim of child marriage, a usual practice in the backward Ghanchi caste, but his desire to serve larger causes persuaded him to skip the final stage of the three-stage marriage. When he left home to become a wanderer in search of truth, he took formal leave of everyone, including his mother.The Modi family had ancestral links with Rajasthan. How Modis became a backward oil pressing community in Gujarat is baffling? Some say that the original backward Modis migrated from Bihar, where there are still people with the Modi surname in oil pressing trade. The veracity of the claim, however, could not be established.Coming from a poor family, he tried to design solutions to poverty after he became the chief minister. He empowered farmers by making agriculture lucrative. He made industries attractive by linking them with profitability, employment and development. This book reflects the changing opinion of his critics after his recent exoneration by an Ahmedabad court. But despite the court verdict, he continues to be vilified for the 2002 riots. This book is an attempt to bust the cultivated myths being spread against him. Muslims and Modi are drawing close to each other. The community voted overwhelmingly for the BJP in the 2012 assembly elections and the municipal elections. Even some of his bitterest critics, such as Zafar Sareshwala and Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi, have turned his admirers. The book presents Narendra Modi as a GameChanger who knows how to impress people with his work and turn the tables on his adversaries. It remains to be seen whether or not the BJP will succeed in converting the massive support for him into votes for the party.
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From the streets of Kathmandu
A little boy climbs down the stairs and runs out of his house. Most little ones do that. But this little boy has no one to stop him. He does not have a name. He only has the memory of a story his father has told him over and over again, from the time he was just six months old until his dying day, when the child was about four years old. It is the story of his father's love affair with his mother and betrayal. From the streets of Kathmandu, this is the story of a child who names himself Basu Rai and who travels the corridors of the world, takes part in the global March against child labour and arrive finally in the country he identifies as his own - India. Though Basu has found his country, his quest for family is not over. His search for identity begins with his book which maps the step by step progress of a reticent toddler from a well-to-do family through being a violent street child and a child labourer returning from the jaws of death several times, to his fights to go to school, being school captain and finally at 26, with the telling of his story in a book. This is an inspirational story which tells about nurturing by a father. It is also a story that tells us here was a case for nurturing by the state, which was completely missing. It, instead, points to the loopholes in the systems in place, the social welfare systems, the education systems and the family systems that the subcontinent so boasts about but in reality, does not exist. It directs us to the vacuum children are often forced to grow up in. To get an enlightened and educated young citizen from nothing is nothing short of a miracle.
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Indis's Biggest Cover Up
India’s Biggest Cover Up is a sequel to Dhar’s previous book, Back From Dead: Inside The Subhas Bose Mystery, which was released in 2005. Following that, Dhar and his colleagues had begun their research to find out the reason behind Subhash Chandra Bose’s death, and requested extra information from the Ministry of Home Affairs, Indian Prime Minister’s Office, and the Ministry of External Affairs. They also sought information from foreign governments through the Freedom of Information Act and the Right to Information Act. This book comprises 13 chapters along with six appendices. It also has over 200 photographs, and 90 top-secret documents that provide a whole new perspective on the death of Netaji. Dhar presents the readers with insights into why he believes Pranab Mukherjee played a role in Bose’s mysterious death. Dhar explains that how Mukherjee allegedly flew to Germany, and attempted to bribe Bose’s wife into giving a written approval to take the ashes from Renkoji Temple, Japan, to India as Bose’s ashes. India’s Biggest Cover Up also provides the readers with an original copy of the document in which the Indian government states that Bose’s death occurred due to a plane crash. It also presents information about former IB Director B. N. Mullik, who lied under oath that the IB had never snooped on Shaulmari baba, who was considered Netaji by many. However, this book comprises certain top secret records of the Intelligence Bureau that Mullik had personally spoken to Jawaharlal Nehru about, concerning certain trivial matters about Shaulmari baba. He also throws light on the treasure of the Indian National Army, which includes diamonds, jewellery, and other valuables that were given by expatriate Indians. There were four men behind the looting, and Jawaharlal Nehru hired one of them even after knowing about his corrupt activities. Dhar explains that it can be regarded as the first scam that took place in Independent India. This book was greatly appreciated by its readers, and newspapers across the country.