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To Every Parent, To Every School

As cliched as it may sound, the world is rapidly changing. Preparing our children for the challenges that these changes may bring in their wake is non-negotiable. Preparation isn’t just about acquiring specific knowledge or skills, as we can’t predict the challenges ahead. What is essential is cultivating attitudes and mindsets that enable us to confront whatever obstacles lie ahead.
To Every Parent, To Every School addresses the challenges posed by our swiftly changing VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world. It goes beyond mere knowledge acquisition or curriculum revisions, which are necessary and continuous processes; nor is it about swapping topics in and out of curricula. While these adjustments are necessary, they aren’t sufficient. What is crucial is empowering our children with the capacity to anticipate and adapt to rapid changes as they occur.
The authors, both veteran educators and thought leaders, offer a variety of insights and action points making this book a valuable addition to the library of every parent and school.

Fallout

Fallout delves into the tumultuous journey of Imran Khan’s transition from a tenacious opposition leader to the prime minister of Pakistan (2014–2018), and his complicated relationship with the Pakistani military since then. It charts the fall of Nawaz Sharif, influenced by the Panama Papers scandal, and the role of former army chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, in the Hybrid Project/Rule, revealing the changes he went through while in power. The book underscores the persistent unpredictability of leadership decisions, both military and civilian, that leads to a constant state of crisis in Pakistan today, underlining the crucial need for institutional stability. A familiar-yet-ever-changing tableau of power, Fallout is an incisive exploration of Pakistani politics.
Fallout delves into the tumultuous journey of Imran Khan’s transition from a tenacious opposition leader to the prime minister of Pakistan (2014–2018), and his complicated relationship with the Pakistani military since then. It charts the fall of Nawaz Sharif, influenced by the Panama Papers scandal, and the role of former army chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, in the Hybrid Project/Rule, revealing the changes he went through while in power. The book underscores the persistent unpredictability of leadership decisions, both military and civilian, that leads to a constant state of crisis in Pakistan today, underlining the crucial need for institutional stability. A familiar-yet-ever-changing tableau of power, Fallout is an incisive exploration of Pakistani politics.

Best Served Cold

A powerful man approaches Maity on a balmy September evening, worried that someone is planning to murder him. Sometime later, a young woman arrives at the door pleading with Maity to stop her husband from murdering the very same man who visited barely a few hours ago. Maity is quick to act and travels to Manikpur Tea Estate to stop a potential murder. Assisting Maity is his friend Prakash Ray. Twenty years ago, four boys were wronged by a vicious man on this idyllic tea estate. Now, they have returned to avenge the crimes committed against them. His simplest case might just be the most challenging puzzle that detective Janardan Maity has ever faced.

Aperture

When a struggling freelance photographer discovers a secret window in his apartment that offers a clear view of the rooms in a shady hotel across the lane, he is lured by the dangerous obsession of voyeurism and, subsequently, blackmail. But one day, when he sees a husband murder his wife in a fit of rage in one of the rooms, the photographer turns to detective Janardan Maity to confess his own crimes, so that the killer can be brought to book. With his dear friend Prakash Ray by his side, Maity investigates this seemingly simple case, only to realize that not everything is as it seems.

The Distaste of the Earth

The Distaste of the Earth imaginatively weaves an ancient world of Khasi kings and queens, warriors and plunderers, and chronicles the sorrows of a young man caught up in that world.

This layered fictional history of a land where a queen falls in love with a pauper, where animals recount their tales of woe against man, and where retribution—destructive to both good and bad—arrives, sooner or later, begins in a pata, the local bar, whose patrons form a microcosm of the world around them.

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih masterfully equips these endearing characters to explore, through the tragic life of the protagonist, the nature of human existence, raising questions about earthly powers, godly dispensation, and where our anthropocentric attitude is leading us. Through a universe of fierce warriors and ruthless wars, the novel grapples with themes such as greed and oppression, revenge and justice, love and the tragedy of love, strife and the peace that comes when one ‘unyokes’ oneself, ‘disconnected from the sources of wretchedness, a fluffy down in the wind of fortune’.

The novel reimagines a world where man is a despot, where God is ostensibly absent, perhaps much like our own, outlining issues at once ancient and contemporary with startling clarity.

A Firestorm in Paradise

Before the 1857 Uprising of India, the old Delhi, or Shahjahanabad is sprawling with life—like an ode wavering towards its end. The inhabitants of Red Fort and the splendored world around it, all subjects of Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, lived on the cusp of a change with the arrival of the British. Yet, people’s own stories continued against backdrop of this transition.

At the centre of this sprawling narrative is a princess, Falak Ara, daughter of the Emperor. Beautiful and vivacious, Falak Ara is curious about the world outside the fort but never imagines being able to leave. Soon, she loses her heart to a salatin—a prince— and longs for a union with him. Her quest is made difficult by a changing Shahjahanabad, on whose horizon lurks a revolution.

Author Rana Safvi unspools the aches of a young heart as she pays homage to Old Delhi—which, like a living, breathing being, has many moods and survives a lifetime in this novel A Firestorm in Paradise.

Middle of Diamond India (Hindi)/Amrit Kaal Ka Bharat/अमृत काल का भारत

अमृत काल का भारत एक क्रांतिकारी विचार प्रस्तुत करती है कि कैसे भारत अपने छोटे-छोटे नगरों और कस्बों में रहने वाले प्रतिभाशाली लोगों के विशाल वर्ग पर ध्यान देकर अपनी तरक्की का रास्ता खोल सकता है, जो लंबे समय से उपेक्षित रहे हैं।
यह किताब देश के उस हिस्से की छुपी हुई कहानियों को सामने लाती है जिन्हें उनकी भौगिलिक स्थिति और भाषा की वजह से अब तक नजरअंदाज किया गया है।  

Time Stops at Shamli (Hindi)/Shamli Mein Thahra Waqt Aur Anya Kahaniyan/शामली में ठहरा वक़्त और अन्य कहानियाँ

टाइम स्टॉप्स एट शामली एक पुस्तक है जिसे भारतीय लेखक रस्किन बॉण्ड ने लिखी है। यह पुस्तक भारत के छोटे-से कस्बे शामली और पहाड़ियों के आसपास बसे गाँवों, कस्बों और नगरों में घटित घटनाओं पर आधारित है। इस पुस्तक में समय का महत्त्वपूर्ण रोल है, जैसे कि गाँव में कुछ अजीब घटनाएँ होती हैं और उन घटनाओं को एक अलग नज़रिये से देखा जाता है। पुस्तक की कहानियों में वास्तविकता का अद्वितीय रूप दिखता है और पढ़ने वालों को अपने प्रेम और समृद्ध भारतीय संस्कृति के साथ जुड़ने का मौका देते हैं। यह पुस्तक रस्किन बॉण्ड की कल्पना और व्यक्तिगत अनुभव का एक प्रिय उदाहरण है। 

Madam President/मैडम प्रेसिडेंट

राष्ट्रपति द्रौपदी मुर्मू की पूरी राजनीतिक यात्रा उनकी सच्ची लगन, मेहनत और संयम की कहानी है। यह पुस्तक उनके प्रेरणास्रोत जीवन पर लिखा गया पहला विस्तृत व प्रामाणिक जीवनवृत्त है।
द्रौपदी मुर्मू को शुरूआती दिनों में बेहतर शिक्षा हासिल करने के लिए तमाम तरह के संघर्षों और बाद के दिनों में कई त्रासदियों का सामना करना पड़ा। व्यक्तिगत जीवन में दोनों बेटों और पति की असमय मौत के अलावा राजनीतिक जीवन में भी उन्हें कई तरह के उतार चढ़ाव देखने पड़े। उन्होंने बेहद धैर्य के साथ हर परिस्थिति का सामना किया और आज देश के सर्वोच्च पद पर आसीन हैं।
राष्ट्रपति द्रौपदी मुर्मू राजनीतिक निर्वाचन की पहली सीढ़ी, नगर निकाय में पार्षद बनने के बाद काम के प्रति समर्पण और कठोर मेहनत की बदौलत आदिवासी समुदाय से पहली भारतीय राष्ट्रपति बनीं। यह पुस्तक उनके जीवन से जुड़ी सभी घटनाओं का विस्तार से वर्णन करती है।  

Volga Se Ganga/वोल्गा से गंगा

इस कहानी-संग्रह की बीस कहानियाँ आठ हजार वर्षों तथा दस हजार किलोमीटर की परिधि में बँधी हुई हैं। इस प्रकार हम कह सकते हैं कि यह कहानियाँ भारोपीय मानवों की सभ्यता के विकास की पूरी कड़ी को सामने रखने में सक्षम हैं। 6000 ई.पू. से 1942 ई. तक के कालखंड में मानव समाज के ऐतिहासिक, आर्थिक एवं राजनीतिक अध्ययन को राहुल सांकृत्यायन ने इस कहानी-संग्रह में बाँधने का प्रयास किया है। लेखक अपने कहानी संग्रह के विषय में खुद ही लिखते हैं कि लेखक की एक-एक कहानी के पीछे उस युग के संबंध की वह भारी सामग्री है, जो दुनिया की कितनी ही भाषाओं, तुलनात्मक भाषाविज्ञान, मिट्टी, पत्थर, ताँबे, पीतल, लोहे पर सांकेतिक व लिखित साहित्य अथवा अलिखित गीतों, कहानियों, रीति-रिवाजों, टोटके-टोनों में पाई जाती है।  

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