مؤلف: Deepa Agarwal

A little girl, Manikarnika, with an uncanny sense of her own destiny, grew up to be none other than the brave queen of Jhansi, Rani Lakshmibai. Trained in horse riding and the martial arts from an ea …

Fourteen-year-old Debu sets off across the high mountain passes from Kumaon to Tibet to search for his father who got lost in a blizzard the year before. Adventures follow thick and fast a forced sta …

I, Chanakya, vow not to bind my hair until I have unseated you from the throne of Magadha. When learned Brahmin Vishnugupta is humiliated by arrogant king Dhana Nanda in a public gathering, he swears …

One night fifteen-year-old Rajula’s carefree life in the green hills of Kumaon is changed forever. A mysterious man begins to haunt her dreams and he turns out to be no other than the ruler of Katyur …

A RICH AND LIVELY GATHERING OF INDIA S FINEST AND MOST ORIGINAL THINKERS AND WRITERS, LEADERS AND OPINION-MAKERS, NATURALISTS AND ADVENTURERS, SCIENTISTS AND CULTURE EXPERTS. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on ho …

If you know the answer and do not respond, your head will shatter into pieces! In a land of glorious kings, bloodthirsty demons and talking spirits, was born the lore of Vikram and the Vetal. After a …

She darted up to her brother, grabbed his stick of chalk and scrawled an intricate shape that her fingers traced, she didn t know how… Selentra, youngest of three siblings born to a weaver s family …

Begum Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan was the wife of Pakistan’s first prime minister. She was born Irene Margaret Pant in Kumaon in the early twentieth century. A generation earlier, her family had converte …

Nineteenth-century Tibet was an unknown entity, a complete geographical mystery to the West.Where did its capital city Lhasa lie?Which rivers, lakes and mountains stretched across this land?Where wer …

India’s gift to the world-Kautilya’s Arthashastra addresses almost every aspect of governance from the duties and objectives of the ruler to social welfare, financial management, town planning, law a …