Download or read book A Chera Adventure written by Preetha Leela Chockalingam and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2023-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curious and spirited, Sharadha loves living life in her ancestral tharavadu. The grand ol' house, Vishwasam, is right in the heart of her beloved Marayur, in the Chera kingdom. The house is also the centre of activities as Devaki Amma, her grandmother, is a healer for the King no less! Life is good in the sleepy village! But her inquisitiveness takes Sharadha on an unintended adventure. Trying to investigate a secret, she chances upon a mysterious trader and ends up in the bustling city of Mahodayapuram. And it's not just any city but the busy multicultural melting pot of the Cheraman Perumal Empire! As she traverses the metropolis, Sharadha gets pulled into the magical colours, languages, religions, and the vibrancy of the city. She now realizes how complex the Capital is from her small village life-full of intrigue and political scandals. But as a sudden war with the ambitious and powerful Chola Dynasty looms on the horizon, Sharadha pines to get back to her old quiet life in Marayur. Will she ever be able to see her beloved Vishwasam again? Can she use the wisdom taught by her grandmother to save the others and herself? Peek into an account of what life was like during the final years of the Chera Dynasty of the eleventh century Kerala!
Download or read book A Chera Adventure Girls of India Series written by Preetha Leela Chockalingam and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curious and spirited, Sharadha loves living life in her ancestral tharavadu. The grand ol' house, Vishwasam, is right in the heart of her beloved Marayur, in the Chera kingdom. The house is also the centre of activities as Devaki Amma, her grandmother, is a healer for the King no less! Life is good in the sleepy village! But her inquisitiveness takes Sharadha on an unintended adventure. Trying to investigate a secret, she chances upon a mysterious trader and ends up in the bustling city of Mahodayapuram. And it's not just any city but the busy multicultural melting pot of the Cheraman Perumal Empire! As she traverses the metropolis, Sharadha gets pulled into the magical colours, languages, religions, and the vibrancy of the city. She now realizes how complex the Capital is from her small village life-full of intrigue and political scandals. But as a sudden war with the ambitious and powerful Chola Dynasty looms on the horizon, Sharadha pines to get back to her old quiet life in Marayur. Will she ever be able to see her beloved Vishwasam again? Can she use the wisdom taught by her grandmother to save the others and herself? Peek into an account of what life was like during the final years of the Chera Dynasty of the eleventh century Kerala!
Download or read book Girls of India written by Subhadra Sen Gupta and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping adventure and mystery story set in the past 3rd century BCE, Pataliputra, India Madhura is twelve and lives in the legendary city of Pataliputra during the reign of King Ashoka of the Mauryan dynasty. She works in the palace as the maid and companion of Princess Sanghamitra. Madhura does not like it all!
Download or read book A Harappan Adventure written by Sunila Gupte and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2570 BCE, Bagasra Village, Harappa, India Twelve-year-old Avani is a happy-go-lucky, adventurous Harappan girl, who loves to play with her friends Tavishi, Delshad and Ambar. The wedding of the Village Elder’s daughter Ketika brings fresh excitement into their lives. However, something sinister is afoot, as Avani realizes when she overhears a mysterious conversation between two men. Other incidents, like a bizarre robbery and a fire at the grain storeroom, add to the tension. Do these unconnected events point to a bigger plan? How is the monk from far-off China linked to all this? Will Avani and her friends’ quick thinking unmask this plan, and save the honour of Bagasra village and Harappa?
Download or read book Chola Adventure written by Kumar Anu and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 990 CE, Tanjore, India Twelve-year-old Raji is growing up during the reign of Rajaraja Chola in south India. Raji is a girl of spirit--brave, bright and bold. She is also a dancer, a warrior and a sculptor who models kingdoms in stone. Raji, however is not happy: she misses her family. Her mother is in exile and her father has left home in grief. On a dark night as a storm rages, Raji rescues a Chinese sailor at sea. This sets off a chain of events with unforeseen consequences. A Shiva statue goes missing, a prince disappears and there is a murder inside a temple. As Raji and her friends, the prince Rajendra Chola and his cousin, Ananta, try to help the Chinese mariner, they realize that he may have some of the answers Raji has been looking for. Will the Criminals be brought to justice? Will Raji's family be reunited once again? Will peace be restored to the mighty Chola Kingdom?
Download or read book Girls of India written by Sunila Gupte and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2570 BCE, Bagasra Village, Harappa, India Twelve-year-old Avani is a happy-go-lucky, adventurous Harappan girl, who loves to play with her friends Tavishi, Delshad and Ambar. The wedding of the Village Elder's daughter Ketika brings fresh excitement into their lives. However, something sinister is afoot, as Avani realizes when she overhears a mysterious conversation between two men. Other incidents, like a bizarre robbery and a fire at the grain storeroom, add to the tension.
Download or read book The Adventure Girls at K Bar D written by Clair Blank and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Mauryan Adventure written by Subhadra Sen Gupta and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3rd Century BCE, Pataliputra, India Madhura lives in the legendary city of Pataliputra during the reign of King Ashoka of the Maurayan dynasty. She works in the palace as the maid and companion of Princess Sanghamitra. Madhura does not like it at all! Life is so boring. She dreams of travelling across the land like her brother Kartik, who is a trader and growing up to become a soldier, fighting with swords and riding horses. Madhura's dream suddenly come true as she travels with Kartik from Pataliputra to Ujjaini in a caravan. On the way mysterious things begin to happen. Who is that fat man giving out packets full of gold and silver coins to Kartik? Why are they stopping at Vidisha to meet a Buddhist monk? Kartik is up to something and Madhura has to find out the truth. Read this fascinating account of Madhura's life, and discover what it was like to grow up in the past!
Download or read book The Rise of the BJP written by Bhupender Yadav and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bharatiya Janata Party is an idea that was seeded into the minds of nationalist Jana Sangh leaders when they began to envision India after Independence. Much like the very core the freedom struggle was built on, they saw India as a demographically, culturally and historically cohesive and unified nation - as Bharat. In this book, senior BJP leader and cabinet minister Bhupender Yadav and leading economist Ila Patnaik come together to trace the BJP's journey from its humble roots, through ups and downs and to eventually getting 303 seats in Lok Sabha in 2019 and becoming the world's largest political party. While focusing on the larger economics and political story, the book encapsulates many smaller, yet hugely significant stories of individuals and incidents, which brought the BJP to where it stands now. For the first time ever, The Rise of the BJP, tells us the inside story of how one of the most powerful political parties makes decisions, implements ideas and executes policy. Meticulously researched and immensely readable, the book shows us how the BJP fought competing ideologies, political assaults and catapulted to the centre stage of national politics.
Download or read book Becoming Indian written by and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2012 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Holes in the Sky written by Patricia Polacco and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Eula is back! In this heartwarming companion to Chicken Sunday, young Trisha is devastated when her grandmother passes away, but finds joy in bonds with a new friend, her new California neighborhood—and the invincible Miss Eula. There will never be anyone like her grandmother, Patricia Polacco thinks, when her grandmother passes away. But when she and her family move to California—in the middle of a drought—she meets a new friend, the irrepressible Stewart, and his amazing grandmother, Miss Eula, who not only takes Trisha under her wing, but, with Trisha and Stewart, steps up to lead their entire extraordinarily diverse neighborhood to help a hurting neighbor—and her once lush garden—survive the drought. Trisha's grandmother's old saying about the stars being Holes in the Sky turns out to be Miss Eula's, too, convincing Trisha that she has miraculously discovered another unforgettable grandmother.
Download or read book Indica written by Pranay Lal and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few places have been as influential as the Indian subcontinent in shaping the course of life on Earth. Yet its evolution has remained largely unchronicled. Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent fills this gap. From the oldest rocks, formed three billion years ago in Karnataka, to the arrival of our ancestors 50,000 years ago on the banks of the Indus, the author meticulously sifts through wide-ranging scientific disciplines and through the layers of earth to tell us the story of India, filled with a variety of fierce reptiles, fantastic dinosaurs, gargantuan mammals and amazing plants. Beautifully produced in full colour, with a rare collection of images, illustrations and maps, Indica is full of fascinating, lesser-known facts. It shows us how every piece of rock and inch of soil is a virtual museum, and how, over billions of years, millions of spectacular creatures have reproduced, walked and lived over and under it.
Download or read book The Girl from Nongrim Hills written by Ankush Saikia and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bok, a guitar player with a Shillong band, has a lot on his mind. His elder brother Kitdor has lost 50 lakh rupees on a trip to Nagaland to purchase arms for a group of militants. Kitdor is given a week to repay the money, and the only person he can turn to is his laidback younger brother. Bok is helpless until a chance encounter with a beautiful woman provides him with a desperate solution. But fate can’t be cheated and soon the hapless musician is tangled in her web of lies. He must outmanoeuvre her and the trail of politicians, militants and cops she leaves in her wake, and find the 50 lakh in time if he is to save his brother. Dark, atmospheric and utterly gripping, The Girl from Nongrim Hills is a superb thriller and a great Shillong novel.
Download or read book JoJo s Bizarre Adventure Part 3 Stardust Crusaders Vol 9 written by Hirohiko Araki and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JoJo and friends find themselves facing one of the strangest foes of all—an enemy that can transport them into the world of video games! Can they get enough extra lives before it’s “Game Over”? Meanwhile, Polnareff enters the house of evil as he battles for his life in DIO’s lair! -- VIZ Media
Download or read book Love in the Time of Cholera Illustrated Edition written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully packaged edition of one of García Márquez's most beloved novels, with never-before-seen color illustrations by the Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and an interior design created by the author's son, Gonzalo García Barcha. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.
Download or read book The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean written by Raoul McLaughlin and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of ancient Roman shipping and trade across continents reveals the Roman Empire’s far-reaching impact in the ancient world. In ancient times, large fleets of Roman merchant ships set sail from Egypt on voyages across the Indian Ocean. They sailed from Roman ports on the Red Sea to distant kingdoms on the east coast of Africa and southern Arabia. Many continued their voyages across the ocean to trade with the rich kingdoms of ancient India. Along these routes, the Roman Empire traded bullion for valuable goods, including exotic African products, Arabian incense, and eastern spices. This book examines Roman commerce with Indian kingdoms from the Indus region to the Tamil lands. It investigates contacts between the Roman Empire and powerful African kingdoms, including the Nilotic regime that ruled Meroe and the rising Axumite Realm. Further chapters explore Roman dealings with the Arab kingdoms of southern Arabia, including the Saba-Himyarites and the Hadramaut Regime, which sent caravans along the incense trail to the ancient rock-carved city of Petra. The first book to bring these subjects together in a single comprehensive study, The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean reveals Rome’s impact on the ancient world and explains how international trade funded the legions that maintained imperial rule.
Download or read book The Puffin History of the World written by Roshen Dalal and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the world wars to the French revolution, the emergence of the Internet to the decoding of the genome, Roshen Dalal traces the progress of human civilization across the centuries. Find answers to how the slave trade came about and how industrialization happened. Follow the rise and fall of great empires such as the Ottomans and the Mughals, the breakdown of communism in China and the destruction and rejuvenation of Japan post nuclear attacks. Discover how new countries shaped their boundaries and great art and literature flourished. Beginning at 1500, this sequel volume packs in interesting stories and quotes, portraits of colourful personalities, fun trivia as well as numerous maps and illustrations that bring global history alive.
