The Vanguards of Azad Hind

The Vanguards of Azad Hind
Author: Gayathri Ponvannan
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2022-08-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9354926622

The year is 1943 in British India . . . Kayal is a 16-year-old freedom fighter who takes part in marches, burns British goods and sabotages trains-all without the knowledge of her law-abiding family. So, it comes as quite a surprise when Kayal discovers that her aunt Uma is a soldier in the Azad Hind Fauj, the all-volunteer Indian National Army from Southeast Asia led by Subhash Chandra Bose, which aims to free India! By what Kayal considers a huge stroke of luck, Uma agrees to take her along to a recruitment camp in Burma. Suddenly, the war, which had once seemed a distant thrill, now becomes a horrific reality. Packed with adventures of teenagers as they join military boot camps, and set off on the most exciting journey of their lives, The Vanguards of Azad Hind is an ode to the Azad Hind Fauj and its women's unit, the Rani of Jhansi regiment, whose soldiers proved to be trailblazers with their feisty passion to fight for India's freedom.

The Vanguards of Azad Hind

The Vanguards of Azad Hind
Author: Gayathri Ponvannan
Publisher: Puffin
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9780143459095

The year is 1943 in British India . . . Kayal is a 16-year-old freedom fighter who takes part in marches, burns British goods and sabotages trains-all without the knowledge of her law-abiding family. So, it comes as quite a surprise when Kayal discovers that her aunt Uma is a soldier in the Azad Hind Fauj, the all-volunteer Indian National Army from Southeast Asia led by Subhas Chandra Bose, which aims to free India! By what Kayal considers a huge stroke of luck, Uma agrees to take her along to a recruitment camp in Burma. Suddenly, the war, which had once seemed a distant thrill, now becomes a horrific reality. Packed with adventures of teenagers as they join military boot camps, and set off on the most exciting journey of their lives, The Vanguards of Azad Hind is an ode to the Azad Hind Fauj and its women's unit, the Rani of Jhansi regiment, whose soldiers proved to be trailblazers with their feisty passion to fight for India's freedom.

Swayamvara

Swayamvara
Author: David Hair
Publisher: Puffin
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2011
Genre: Demonology
ISBN: 9780143331445

Mumbai, October 2010: Bollywood actress Sunita Ashoka will marry the man who wins her hand in Swayamvara Live, a reality show on television. Vikram Khandavani decides to participate, for he needs to draw out his nemesis Ravindra. It's a deadly gamble, one that could cost him everything and everyone he loves.North India, 1175: King Prithviraj Chauhan is about to storm the swayamvara of the beautiful Sanyogita. But Ravindra is coming, riding at the side of a fierce invader. Only Vikram, in his life as Chand Bardai, stands between Ravindra and all the thrones of India.In the second book of the engrossing The Return of Ravana series the action oscillates from the floodlit studios of Mumbai to the glittering Rajput courts, while Vikram-Chand and his friends battle an age-old adversary whose power is growing like never before . . .

100 Great Chronicles of Indian History

100 Great Chronicles of Indian History
Author: Gayathri Ponvannan
Publisher: Hachette India
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2022-01-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9391028772

A signboard from the most advanced civilization in the ancient world. The lost notebooks of a mathematical genius. A line on a map that divided a country into two. Read about these and 97 other amazing documents - from stone inscriptions, palm-leaf and papyrus manuscripts, clay tablets and copper plate engravings to patents, posters, letters, journals, maps and much, much more - that will take you on an extraordinary tour of India's fascinating past. Dip into an adventurer's diary to find out what it was like to spend a day at the Mughal court. Refer to a centuries-old guidebook for stage performance tips. Marvel at the exquisite illustrations adorning the pages of a conqueror's scrapbook. These invaluable relics offer rare glimpses and insights into events that shaped the course of India's kaleidoscopic journey, uncovering little-known details, colourful stories and a collage of cultures. Deeply researched, engagingly written and thoroughly engrossing, this is one history book you will not want to put down!

The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution

The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution
Author: Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1994-09-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520083691

In this groundbreaking study, Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr examines the origins, historical development, and political strategies of one of the oldest and most influential Islamic revival movements, the Jama'at-i Islami of Pakistan. He focuses on the inherent tension between the movement's idealized vision of the nation as a holy community based in Islamic law and its political agenda of socioeconomic change for Pakistani society. Nasr's work goes beyond the exploration of a single party to examine the diverse sociopolitical roots of contemporary Islamic revivalism, challenging many of the standard interpretations about political expressions of Islam.--Publisher description.

Time Racers

Time Racers
Author: Gayathri Ponvannan
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2015-10-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9352141946

A lush, richly layered novel and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangeness begins. A down-to-earth gardener finds that his feet no longer touch the ground. Abandoned at the mayor’s office, a baby identifies corruption with her mere presence, marking the guilty with blemishes and boils. A seductive gold digger is soon tapped to combat forces beyond imagining. It is the onset of an epic war between light and dark, spanning a thousand and one nights, in which beliefs are challenged, words act like poison, silence is a disease, and a noise may contain a hidden curse. Inspired by the traditional ‘wonder tales’ of the East, Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is satirical and bawdy, full of cunning and folly, rivalries and betrayals, kismet and karma, rapture and redemption.