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Breaking the Bow
Breaking the Bow is a collection of brilliant, original and beautifully told tales, guaranteed to enlighten and entertain. A long time ago, a young prince, the heir to a great South-Asian kingdom, wielded Sivas mighty bow and won the heart of a brave princess. The story of what happened next to the married couplethe Ramayanatold and re-told countless times over the centuries, begins where most stories end. The twenty-five stories in Breaking the Bow take a similar courageous leap into the unknown. Inspired by the Ramayana and its cultural importance, the anthology dares to imagine new worlds. Here you will find magic realist and surreal stories. Robot and cyberpunk stories. Fantasy and science fiction stories. Hard-to-classify stories. Stories by some of the best writers in contemporary south-Asian fiction, including Abha Dawesar, Rana Dasgupta, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Tabish Khair, Kuzhali Manickavel, Mary Anne Mohanraj and Manjula Padmanabhan. Stories from India, Sri Lanka and Thailand, but also Holland, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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I'm Smarter than you think,mom and dad!
Ever wondered how to keep your little angel from the negative influences of the world in this challenging time? How to help her grow into a responsible, successful and happy adult you can be proud of? Does it sometimes feel that divine intervention is needed? Help is at hand in this brilliant new book by the best-selling author, Mridula Agarwal. In this outstanding book, Farishta flies down from heaven to see for himself how little kids are being brought up, and what is making Almighty so unhappy. What he discovers on his travels surprises and shocks him, but how familiar those scenes are to us! As he moves from home to home, he talks to kids and watches how their moms and dads behave around them. For a divine being, Farishta is thoroughly down-to-earth and the lessons we, as parents, learn through his eyes are invaluable. The result is a simple, practical set of guiding principles that can help you as a parent understand how to help your child grow in the most positive and successful way possible.